Amphion
am-fi'un, in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus, and husband of Niobe. He was a famous musician. It was said that when he built the wall of Thebes, the stones moved voluntarily into place to the music of his lyre. So Apollo was said to have built Troy to music. Tennyson borrowed this idea in Idylls of the King, where he represents the "shadowy Camelot" as having been built to music. Tennyson has also written a poem entitled Amphion, in which he treats the story of his musical power humorously:
O had I lived when song was great
In days of old Amphion
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate,
Nor cared for seed or scion!
And had I lived when song was great,
And legs of trees were limber,
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate,
And fiddled in the timber!
'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue,
Such happy intonation,
Wherever he sat down and sung
He left a small plantation;
Wherever in a lonely grove
He set up his forlorn pipes,
The gouty oak began to move,
And flounder into hornpipes.
In days of old Amphion
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate,
Nor cared for seed or scion!
And had I lived when song was great,
And legs of trees were limber,
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate,
And fiddled in the timber!
'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue,
Such happy intonation,
Wherever he sat down and sung
He left a small plantation;
Wherever in a lonely grove
He set up his forlorn pipes,
The gouty oak began to move,
And flounder into hornpipes.
Volume I · Aiton’s Encyclopedia