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"Music is enough for a whole lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music." - Sergei Rachmaninoff -

Sonnet 24 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 24

by William Shakespeare

Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd

Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;

My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,

And perspective it is the painter's art.

For through the painter must you see his skill,

To find where your true image pictured lies;

Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,

That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.

Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:

Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me

Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun

Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;

Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;

They draw but what they see, know not the heart.

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"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are and for what, whence, and whereto. All the great interrogatories like questioning Angels float in on its waves of sound." - Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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 "It is proportion that beautifies everything; this whole Universe consists of it, and Music is measured by it." - Orlando Gibbons -

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"Music is the art of the prophets; it is the only other art which, like theology, can calm the agitations of the soul, and put the devil to flight." - Martin Luther -

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 "He who sings well prays twice." - Attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo -

The Battle for Moriah

Title: The Battle for Moriah

Author: Peter van Kampen

Rating: ★★★⯪☆

Age Category: Young Adult/New Adult

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

      The kingdom of Moriah was peaceful under King Melchizedek. But it hadn't always been. Melchizedek had defeated the dragons and their allies, and banished them. Now, Moriah's old enemies have returned, and they've captured the king's daughter, Sarah. This forces Sarah to face hard questions - why had her father hidden the truth from her? Were the dragons the villains she'd been told they were, or should she listen to them?