Poem by Bessie Rayner Parkes

Music

SWEET melody amidst the moving spheres
Breaks forth, a solemn and entrancing sound,
A harmony whereof the earth's green hills
Give but the faintest echo; yet is there
A music everywhere, and concert sweet!
All birds which sing amidst the forest deep
Till the flowers listen with unfolded bells;
All winds that murmur over summer grass,
Or curl the waves upon the pebbly shore;
Chiefly all earnest human voices rais'd
In charity and for the cause of truth,
Mingle together in one sacred chord,
And float, a grateful incense, up to God.

1. The Watch in Heaven
2. The Terrace of St. Germain
3. The Coelian Hill
4. To E.B.
5. Carisbrooke Chimes

Gilbert Chesterton Music ("SOUNDING brass and tinkling cymbal")

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