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Today’s Poem: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

Today’s Poem: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

The trumpet shall be heard on high / . . . And music shall untune the sky.

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Orazio Gentileschi, Saint Cecilia with an Angel, c. 1620 (Wikimedia Commons)

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