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BEETHOVEN, by                    
First Line: Sublimest master, thou, of harmony
Last Line: With something of thy pure, celestial fire.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians


Sublimest Master, thou, of harmony,
From whose untroubled depths serenely flow
The sinuous streams of sweetest melody;
Now in exhaustless fulness dost thou know
The joy divine thy raptured strains foretold;
God's harmony thy prayer hath satisfied,
His music on thy listening ear hath rolled;
Accord unmarred, for which thy spirit sighed,
In its completeness, through the eternal years
Is thine; thy yearning soul its echo dim
Didst catch amid thy mortal woes and fears, —
An earnest of the blest, perpetual hymn,
And legacy to us, which shall inspire,
With something of thy pure, celestial fire.





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