Amphion
is said to have built Thebes by the music of his lute, which
was so melodious that the stones danced into walls and houses of their
own accord. Tennyson has a rhyming jeu d'esprit.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Amphion from Fact Monster:
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