The Power of Song

ORPHEUS with his lute made trees

And the mountain tops that freeze 

Bow themselves when he did sing:

To his music plants and flowers

There had made a lasting spring.

Every thing that heard him play,

even the billows of the sea,

Hung their heads, and then lay by.

In sweet music is such art,

Killing care and grief of heart 

Fall asleep, or hearing die.

(From Henry)