Poems (Jordan)/Harmony

by Rebecca Queen Jordan

For works with similar titles, see Harmony.

HARMONY

Thou the pure linguist of Perfection art! In color, thou art Music, stricken mute;In sound, art Beauty blessed with tongue and heart;— The Same, expressed in varying attribute.

In character;—a healthy body, whose All virtues are symmetrically joined;Each part self-whole essential to declare The perfect wisdom of the ruling mind.

As emanates the rainbow from the sun, Burning one light in seven hues ablent,So souls who re-present the Christ, show one White Life enveined in actions different.

A perfect Whole doth Harmony assert; If one atom thereof distorted be,All is destroyed, as surfeit doth pervert Live changelessness to dead monotony.