Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of heavens deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Milton (16081674), British poet. On the Morning of Christs Nativity (l. 97104). . .
The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.