The New Atlantis

By Spectrum

On Forever Alien

Released on August 4, 1997

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We also have sound-houses

Where we practice and demonstrate all sounds in their generation

We have harmonies which you have not

Of quarter-sounds and lesser slides of sounds

Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown

Some sweeter than any you have

Together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet

We represent small sounds as well as great and deep

Likewise great sound

Extenuate and sharp

We make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds

Which in their original are entire

We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters and the voices and notes of beasts and birds

We have certain helps

Which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly

We also have strange and artificial echoes

Reflecting the voice many times

And as if it were tossing it

And some that give back the voice louder than it came

Some shriller, some deeper

Yea

Some rendering the voice

Differing in the letters or articulate sound

From that they receive

We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes

In strange lines

And distances