“Our life contains a thousand springs and dies if one be gone, strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long.”
“The continental harmony containing, a number of anthems, fuges, and chorusses, in several parts” Billings, William. Boston. 1794. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008581409/
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