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Music more lofty swells
In speeches nobly placed;
BEAUTY as far excels
In actions aptly graced.
  A friend each party draws
  To countenance his cause.

LOVE more affected seems
BEAUTY'S lovely light;
And WONDER more esteems
Of MUSIC's wondrous might:
  But both to both so bent
  As both in both are spent.

Music doth witness call
The ear, his truth to try;
BEAUTY brings to the hall
The judgment of the eye:
  Both in their objects such,
  As no exceptions touch.

The common SENSE which might
Be arbiter of this;
To be forsooth upright,
To both sides partial is:
  He lays on this side chief praise;
  Chief praise on that he lays.

Then REASON, Princess high!
Whose throne is in the mind;
Which music can in sky,
And hidden beauties find.
  Say! whether thou wilt crown
  With limitless renown?