ЖИВЫЕ И МЕРТВЫЕ

I cannot think of any instance of a more optimistic summary of the Nicene Creed (381) — “[I] look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come” (cf. “Προσδοκῶ ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν. Καὶ ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος”) — than in the ending of John Dryden’s “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” (1683):

The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.