Thursday, January 1, 2004

A Song For St. Cecilia's Day Comments

Rating: 2.7

FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,
This universal frame began:
When nature underneath a heap
Of jarring atoms lay,
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John Dryden
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Geeta Radhakrishna Menon 24 March 2017

The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky! A musical poem with trumpets and Violins that shall echo in the mind for a long while. A heavenly harmony!

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Douglas Scotney 24 March 2017

Ahead of its time I'd say, considering the Plague. Lots of great words: sequacious, warbling, diapason.

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Dr.subhendu Kar 24 March 2017

thanks for allowing us to read such a wonderful poem

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Tom Allport 24 March 2017

a very harmonious poem of the beginnings of life on earth and then it goes on to tell us what will happen at life's close?

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Bernard F. Asuncion 24 March 2017

Heavenly ways.... thanks for posting....

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Edward Kofi Louis 24 March 2017

Harmony! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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