John Henry Newman  - Quotes

 Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,

The art of syren choirs;

Hush the seductive voice that floats

Across the trembling wires.



Music's ethereal power was given

Not to dissolve our clay,

But draw Promethean beams from heaven

To purge the dross away.
 

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