“What passion cannot Music raise and quell?”

— John Dryden

St. 2.
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687)
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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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