Classic Poem

The harmony of Love.

Amphion , O thou holy shade!
 Bring Orpheus up with thee:
That wonder may you both invade,
 Hearing Loves harmony.
You who are soule, not rudely made
 Vp, with Materiall eares,
Are fit to reach the musique of these spheares.
Harke! when Castara's orbs doe move
 By my first moving eyes,
How great the Symphony of Love,
 But 'tis the destinies
Will not so farre my prayer approve,
 To bring you hither, here
Lest you meete heaven, for Elizium there.
Tis no dull Sublunary flame
 Burnes in her heart and mine.
But something more, then hath a name.
 So subtle and divine,
We know not why, nor how it came.
 Which shall shine bright, till she
And the whole world of love, expire with me.

The harmony of Love.

Amphion , O thou holy shade!
 Bring Orpheus up with thee:
That wonder may you both invade,
 Hearing Loves harmony.
You who are soule, not rudely made
 Vp, with Materiall eares,
Are fit to reach the musique of these spheares.
Harke! when Castara's orbs doe move
 By my first moving eyes,
How great the Symphony of Love,
 But 'tis the destinies
Will not so farre my prayer approve,
 To bring you hither, here
Lest you meete heaven, for Elizium there.
Tis no dull Sublunary flame
 Burnes in her heart and mine.
But something more, then hath a name.
 So subtle and divine,
We know not why, nor how it came.
 Which shall shine bright, till she
And the whole world of love, expire with me.