Music's Empire

5Jubal first made the wilder notes agree;

6And Jubal tuned music's Jubilee;

7He call'd the echoes from their sullen cell,

8And built the organ's city where they dwell.

9Each sought a consort in that lovely place,

10And virgin trebles wed the manly bass.

11From whence the progeny of numbers new

12Into harmonious colonies withdrew.

13Some to the lute, some to the viol went,

14And others chose the cornet eloquent,

15These practicing the wind, and those the wire,

16To sing men's triumphs, or in Heaven's choir.

17Then music, the mosaic of the air,

18Did of all these a solemn noise prepare;

19With which she gain'd the empire of the ear,

20Including all between the earth and sphere.

21Victorious sounds! yet here your homage do

22Unto a gentler conqueror than you;

23Who though he flies the music of his praise,

24Would with you Heaven's Hallelujahs raise.