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.