_Concert_, however, is not wrong.

It is even more poetic than _consort_, for it means a _striving together_, which is the idea of all peace: the strife is _together_, and not of one against the other.

All harmony is an ordered, a divine strife.
In the contest of music, every tone restrains its foot and bows its head to the rest in holy dance.
[117] _Symphony_ is here used for _chorus_, and quite correctly; for _symphony_ is a _voicing together_.

To this symphony of the angels the spheres and the heavenly organ are the accompaniment.
[118] Die of the music.
[119] Not merely _swings_, but _lashes about_.
[120] Full of folds or coils.
[121] The legend concerning this cessation of the oracles associates it with the Crucifixion.

Milton in _The Nativity_ represents it as the consequence of the very presence of the infant Saviour.