Blest pair of Sirens
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joySphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and VerseWed your divine sounds, and mixt power employDead things with inbreathed sense able to pierceAnd to our high-raised phantasy presentThat undisturbed song of pure consentAye sung before the sapphire-coloured throneTo him that sits thereon
With saintly shout and solemn jubileeWhere the bright Seraphim, in burning rowTheir loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blowAnd the Cherubic host in thousand quiresTouch their immortal harps of golden wiresWith those just spirits, that wear victorious palmsHymns devout and holy psalmsSinging everlastingly
That we on Earth with undiscording voiceMay rightly answer that melodious noiseAs once we did, till disproportioned sinJarr'd against Nature's chime, and with harsh dinBroke the fair music that all creatures madeTo their great Lord, whose love their motion swayedIn perfect diapason, whilst they stoodIn first obedience, and their state of good
O may we soon again renew that songAnd keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere longTo his celestial consort us uniteTo live with him and sing in endless morn of light