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On MUSIC.
I.
[Page 69]1 MUSIC the coldest Heart can warm,
2 The hardest melt, the fiercest charm;
3 Disarm the Savage of his Rage,
4 Dispel our Cares, and Pains assuage;
5 With Joy it can our Souls inspire,
6 And tune our Tempers to the Lyre;
7 Our Passions, like the Notes, agree,
8 And stand subdu'd by Harmony.
9 This found the melancholy King,
10 When DAVID tun'd the trembling String:
11 Sweet MUSIC chas'd the sullen Spleen away,
12 And made his clouded Soul serenely gay.
II.
13 WHILE MUSIC breathes in Martial Airs,
14 The Coward durst forget his Fears;
15 Or, if the Notes to Pity sound,
16 Revenge and Envy cease to wound:
17 The Pow'r of MUSIC has been known
18 To raise or tumble Cities down:
19 Thus Theban Turrets, Authors say,
20 Were rais'd by MUSIC's magic Lay;
21 And ancient Jericho's Heav'n-hated Wall,
22 To sacred MUSIC, ow'd its destin'd Fall.
III.
23 NOR Mortals only MUSIC love;
24 It chears celestial Saints above:
25 Sweet Hallelujahs Angels sing
26 Around their great Ethereal KING;
[Page 70]27 Ceasless they sound the FATHER's Praise,
28 The FATHER too approves their Lays;
29 For HE (as all Things) MUSIC made,
30 And SERAPHIMS before Him play'd:
31 When over Horeb's Mount He came,
32 Array'd in Majesty and Flame;
33 After the sounding Trump, sublime, He rode;
34 The sounding Trump proclaim'd th'approaching GOD.
IV.
35 MUSIC had Being, long before
36 The solemn Organ learnt to roar:
37 When MICHAEL, o'er the heav'nly Plain,
38 Advanc'd, to fight the rebel Train;
39 Loud Trumpets did his Wrath declare,
40 In MUSIC, terrible to hear:
41 And when the Universe was made,
42 On golden Harps the Angels play'd:
[Page 71]43 And when it falls, (as fall it must)
44 MUSIC shall penetrate the Dust;
45 The Trump shall sound with the Archangel's Breath;
46 And, sweetly dreadful! wake the Dead from Death.
Source edition
Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756. Poems on several occasions: By Stephen Duck. London: printed for the author, 1736, pp. 68-71. xl,334,[2]p. ; 4⁰. (ESTC T90234; OTA K073280.000)
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Other works by Stephen Duck
- The ABSENT LOVER. ()
- [Ad JOANNEM MILTONUM.] ()
- The ANSWER. ()
- AVARO and AMANDA. A POEM, in FOUR CANTO's, Taken from the Spectator, Vol. I. No. xi. ()
- CHLOE's CONQUEST. ()
- CONTENTMENT. ()
- A Description of a Journey To Marlborough, Bath, Portsmouth, &c. To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. ()
- An EPIGRAM. ()
- FELIX and CONSTANCE. A POEM, taken from BOCCACE. ()
- GRATITUDE. A PASTORAL. ()
- Imitated from CLAUDIAN. ()
- An IMITATION Of the Sixteenth Ode Of the Second Book of HORACE. ()
- An Imitation of the Sixteenth Ode of the Third Book of HORACE. ()
- An Imitation of the Tenth Ode of the Second Book of HORACE. To the Right Hon. the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. ()
- Occasion'd by a Dispute with a LADY. ()
- An ODE, presented to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of WALES, in Richmond Gardens, on Thursday, May 6. 1736. ()
- Of FRIENDSHIP. To CELIA. ()
- On a GOOD CONSCIENCE. ()
- On a Screen, work'd in Flowers by Her Royal Highness ANNE, Princess of ORANGE. ()
- On Celia's Picture, drawn by Sir Godfrey Kneller. ()
- On Delia singing, and playing on Music. ()
- On FLORELLA's Birth-Day. ()
- On MITES. To a LADY. ()
- On Mrs. L—s. ()
- On POVERTY. ()
- On RICHMOND PARK, and ROYAL GARDENS. ()
- On the Hon. Mrs. HORNER's Travelling for the Recovery of her Health. ()
- On the Marriage of his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange. ()
- On the QUEEN's Grotto, in RICHMOND Gardens. ()
- On Two Young Ladies leaving the Country. ()
- A PASTORAL ELEGY. ()
- PENELOPE to ULYSSES. Paraphras'd from OVID. ()
- A Poem on Her MAJESTY's Birth-Day. ()
- Proper Ingredients to make a Sceptic. ()
- The SHUNAMMITE. To Mrs. STANLEY. ()
- The THRESHER's LABOUR. To the Revd. Mr. STANLEY. ()
- To a Gentleman, who requested a Copy of Verses from the Author. ()
- To a Young LADY, who had a CUPID given Her. ()
- To DEATH. An IRREGULAR ODE. ()
- To His ROYAL HIGHNESS The DUKE of CUMBERLAND, On His BIRTH-DAY. ()
- To Mr. Winder, (now Fellow) of Corpus-Christi, Oxford; in Answer to a Latin Epistle, which he sent me. ()
- To Mr. WORSDALE: Occasion'd by seeing CELIA's Picture unfinish'd. Writ extempore at Kensington. ()
- To the Author of a Poem on the Duke of Lorrain's Arrival at the British Court. ()
- To the Rev. Dr. Freind, on his quitting Westminster School. ()
- To the Right Honourable William Clayton, Esq (now Lord Sundon) on his being Elected Representative in Parliament for Westminster without Opposition. ()
- TRUTH and FALSHOOD. A FABLE. ()
- The Two Beavers. A FABLE. ()
- VERSES to the Author, In IMITATION of HORACE's ODE on PINDAR. Apply'd to the Marriage of his Highness the Prince of Orange with ANNE, Princess Royal of Great Britain. ()