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Quotes from Ode on St. Cecilia's Day — Joseph Addison

1672–1719 England

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A thousand trills and quivering sounds
In airy circles o'er us fly,
Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,
They faint and languish by degrees,
And at a distance die.

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1699)

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