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...the " Christmas Ilymn " seems a prophecy Handel was sent to fulfil — "For if such holy song Enwrapt our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age...And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day " George III.'s enthusiastic lore for Handel seems to us the second best example he set his people...

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...And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full concert to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetcli the age of gold ; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from...

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...And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full concert to the angelic symphony. For, if such holy song Enwrap...away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering d»y. Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow ; and, like gloríe«...