Oh could you view the Melodie
Of ev'ry grace,
And Musick of her face,
You'd drop a teare,
Seeing more Harmonie
In her bright eye,
Then now you heare.
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Orpheus to Beasts, st. 2. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Browne, Religio Medici, pt. ii, sec. ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), canto i, st. 6