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said, " He that at midnight, when the very la- 

 bourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very 

 often done, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the 

 natural rising and falling, the doubling and re- 

 doubling of its voice, might well be lifted above 

 the earth, and say, * Lord, what music hast thou 

 provided for the saints in heaven, when thou 

 affordest bad men such music on earth ?' " 





