Quote#Art
That heavenly music! what is it I hear?
Quote byWilliam Augustus Muhlenberg · 1796–1877
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
That heavenly music! what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And, see, soft unfolding those portals of gold, The King all arrayed in his beauty behold!
— William Augustus Muhlenberg
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