Blest pair of Sirens lyrics

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy

Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice and Verse

Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ

Dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce

And to our high-raised phantasy present

That undisturbed song of pure consent

Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne

To him that sits thereon

With saintly shout and solemn jubilee

Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row

Their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow

And the Cherubic host in thousand quires

Touch their immortal harps of golden wires

With those just spirits, that wear victorious palms

Hymns devout and holy psalms

Singing everlastingly

That we on Earth with undiscording voice

May rightly answer that melodious noise

As once we did, till disproportioned sin

Jarr'd against Nature's chime, and with harsh din

Broke the fair music that all creatures made

To their great Lord, whose love their motion swayed

In perfect diapason, whilst they stood

In first obedience, and their state of good

O may we soon again renew that song

And keep in tune with Heaven, till God ere long

To his celestial consort us unite

To live with him and sing in endless morn of light