{"id":859,"date":"2023-06-07T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=859"},"modified":"2023-06-07T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T12:42:30","slug":"hubert-parrys-blest-pair-of-sirens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=859","title":{"rendered":"Hubert Parry’s Blest Pair of Sirens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Parry set John Milton’s At a Solemn Musick<\/strong> to music in 1887. The text of the ode is given below.
Here is a link a Wikipedia<\/a> page explaining more about the poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’n’s joy,\u00a0
Sphere-born harmonious Sisters, Voice and Verse,\u00a0
Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ\u00a0
Dead things with inbreath’d sense able to pierce,\u00a0
And to our high-rais’d fantasy present\u00a0
That undisturbed Song of pure concent,\u00a0
Ay sung before that saphire-colour’d throne\u00a0
To Him that sits thereon\u00a0
With Saintly shout and solemn Jubilee,\u00a0
Where the bright Seraphim in burning row\u00a0
Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow,\u00a0
And the Cherubic host in thousand choirs\u00a0
Touch their immortal Harps of golden wires,\u00a0
With those just Spirits that wear victorious Palms,\u00a0
Hymns devout and holy Psalms\u00a0
Singing everlastingly;\u00a0
That we on Earth with undiscording voice\u00a0
May rightly answer that melodious noise;\u00a0
As once we did, till disproportion’d sin\u00a0
Jarr’d against Nature’s chime, and with harsh din\u00a0
Broke the fair music that all creatures made\u00a0
To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway’d\u00a0
In first obedience, and their state of good.\u00a0
And keep in tune with Heav’n, till God ere long\u00a0
To His celestial consort us unite,\u00a0
To live with Him, and sing in endless morn of light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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