Scan 501
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
12 lines. Read by computer on 27 September 2026. Printed page 423. See the scan on archive.org.
1And having tuned it, he played and sung—
3 "The Sundays of man's life,
4 Threaded together on Time's string,
5 Make bracelets to adorn the wife
6 Of the eternal, glorious King;
7 On Sundays heaven's door stands ope,
8 Blessings are plentiful and ripe,
9 More plentiful than hope."
11The 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."
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