III. The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger, And mortal alarms. The double, double, double beat Of the thundering drum, Cries, hark! the foes come: Charge, charge! 'tis too late to retreat. IV. The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers; Whose dirge is whispered by the warbling lute. V. Sharp violins proclaim Their jealous pangs, and desperation, Fury, frantic indignation, Depth of pains, and height of passion, For the fair, disdainful dame. VI. But, oh! what art can teach, What human voice can reach, The sacred organ's praise? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above. VII. Orpheus could lead the savage race; And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre: But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher; When to her organ[97] vocal breath was given, An angel heard, and straight appeared, Mistaking earth for heaven. GRAND CHORUS. As from the power of sacred lays The spheres began to move, And sung the great Creator's praise To all the blessed above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 96: The diapason, with musicians, is a chord including all notes. Perhaps Dryden remembered Spenser's allegorical description of the human figure and faculties: "The frame thereof seemed partly circular, And part triangular; O, work divine! These two, the first and last, propitious are; The one imperfect, mortal feminine, The other immortal, perfect, masculine; And 'twixt them both a quadrate was the base, Proportioned equally by seven and nine; Nine was the circle set in heaven's place; All which compacted made a goodly diapase." _Fairy Queen_, Book II. canto ix. stanza 22. ] [Footnote 97: St Cecilia is said to have invented the organ, though it is not known when or how she came by this credit. Chaucer introduces her as performing upon that instrument: "And while that the organes maden melodie, To God alone thus in her heart sung she." The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to her husband: "I have an angel which that loveth me; That with great love, wher so I wake or slepe, Is ready aye my body for to kepe." _The Second Nonne's Tale._ ] THE TEARS OF AMYNTA, FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON. A SONG. I.