Who’er admires as Excellence
Sound unaccompanied by Sense,
Shall have my free consent to praise
The favourite Music of our days.
Still let them dance to Orpheus’ Sons
Who captivate the Stocks and Stones;
And while (to Harmony’s confusion)
The Masters show their execution
Attend with long transported ears,
Bad Music’s Executioners.
Who’er admires as Excellence
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Another. [Modern Music.]” This hymn appears in the ca. 1785 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Poems.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/583/6). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), pages 383.
Publishing: Public Domain