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The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
17 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1On Sundays heaven's door stands ope,
2 Blessings are plentiful and ripe,
3 More plentiful than hope."
5The thought to which Herbert has given expression in his lines on Easter—that "All music is but three parts vied and multiplied"—was also in the mind of Christopher Simpson, who, in his work on "The Division Viol," 1659, uses it as a musical illustration of the doctrine of Trinity in Unity. He says: "I cannot but wonder, even to amazement, that from no more than three concords (with some intervening discords) there should arise such an infinite variety, as all the music that ever has been, or ever shall be, composed. When I further consider that these sounds, placed by the interval of a third one above another, do constitute one entire harmony, which governs and comprises all the sounds that by art or imagination can be joined together in musical concordance, that, I cannot but think a significant emblem of that Supreme and Incomprehensible Three in One, governing, comprising, and disposing the whole machine of the world, with all its included parts, in a most perfect and stupendous harmony."
7It is interesting to notice an earlier and remarkable allusion to the union of sound from the pen of Shakespeare—
9"If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
10 By unions married, do offend thine ear,
11They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
12 In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
13Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
14 Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
15Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
16 Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing."
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