Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. (John Armstrong)

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

John Armstrong

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