_Concert_, however, is not
wrong. It is even more poetic than _consort_, for it means a _striving
together_, which is the idea of all peace: the strife is _together_, and
not of one against the other. All harmony is an ordered, a divine strife.
In the contest of music, every tone restrains its foot and bows its head
to the rest in holy dance.
[117] _Symphony_ is here used for _chorus_, and quite correctly; for
_symphony_ is a _voicing together_. To this symphony of the angels the
spheres and the heavenly organ are the accompaniment.
[118] Die of the music.
[119] Not merely _swings_, but _lashes about_.
[120] Full of folds or coils.
[121] The legend concerning this cessation of the oracles associates it
with the Crucifixion. Milton in _The Nativity_ represents it as the
consequence of the very presence of the infant Saviour. War and lying are
banished together.
[122] The _genius_ is the local god, the god of the place as a place.
[123] The _Lars_ were the protecting spirits of the ancestors of the
family; the _Lemures_ were evil spirits, spectres, or bad ghosts. But the
notions were somewhat indefinite.
[124] _Flamen_ was the word used for _priest_ when the Romans spoke of
the priest of any particular divinity. Hence the _peculiar power_ in the
last line of the stanza.
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