make melody

“Your heart being snapped into a new gear, a new rhythm, and your lungs heaving to keep up. It’s you using the body as an instrument, you can make melody, you can make sounds and you can move through space. It’s so primal and elemental that it creates a real sense of relief, which is why running and singing are my main passions.”

I hope you will not merely please yourselves with the tunes, but study the meaning of the words, that your hearts may make melody to the Lord.

In cobble-paved alleys how verdant the valleys, How fragrant the forests appear, Where fountains are flashing, and rivulets splashing Make melody sweet to the ear; Where Orpheus his musical message delivers, And Pan and his piping are heard by the rivers!

"You must marry some one who can sing with you," said he to Edward; "it would be a pity to have a wife who could not make melody along with you."

Or shall it be suppos'd, that we must admonish one another of the old Jewish Affairs and Ceremonies in Verse, and make Melody with those weak and beggarly Elements, and the Yoke of Bondage, and yet never dare to speak of the Wonders of new Discovery except in the plain and simple Language of Prose?