text:  The power of giving birth to innumerable forms of exquisite melody delighting the ear and stirring every emotion of the soul agitating us with fear or horror animating us with ardour and enthusiasm filling us with joy melting us with grief now lulling us to repose amidst the luxurious calm of earthly contentment now borrowing wings more ethereal than the lark's and wafting us to the gate of heaven where its notes seem to blend undistinguishably with the songs of superior beings--this is a faculty that bears no unequivocal mark of a divine descent and that nothing but prejudice or pride can deem of trivial or inferior rank