Dryden's poem A Song for St. Cecilia's Day is one of Dryden's more well known poems. In the poem Dryden writes about the influences that music makes on our lives and how music was a gift from the heavens. The poem says that it was music that brought the Earth into existence. The poem also talks about the effects music has on us. It mentions how music helps encourage and also warn us during times of war. It talks about how music sparks the fires of love between people. Dryden writes of a woman named Cecilia and her wonderful voice. It speaks of her singing and making an angel appear thinking that a voice like that could only come from heaven. In the grand chorus Dryden speaks of music being present during the rapture. The lines that say when we here the trumpet, "The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall untune the sky." is how Dryden ends the poem. These lines really wrap up the poem nicely by showing that music was with us from the beginning and is with us at the end.