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The fervour of the sunbeams descending in a tidal flood rings on the strung harp of earth. It is this exquisite undertone, heard and yet unheard, which brings the mind into sweet accordance with the wonderful instrument of nature.
One day, as he was visiting her at her house at Tivoli, she took her harp and sang one of those simple Scotch ballads, the notes of which seemed fit to be borne on the wailing breeze. Oswald's heart was touched at the memories thus awakened of his own country; his eyes filled with tears. "Ah, Corinne," he cried, "does then my country affect your heart?
He appeased the luminous divinity by offerings of flowers, regaled it with simmerings from censers, besought it with the tremulous harp and had it pictured with grace and vested with charm. And since the power of the national faith was all-permeating, its reconstruction was far-reaching in effect. Egypt was swept into a tremendous and beautiful heresy by a homely king, whose word was law.
LADY MILFORD. More cunning than I should have expected from that open countenance. May I inquire your age? LOUISA. Sixteen, just turned. Ha! There it is! Sixteen! The first pulsation of love! The first sweet vibration upon the yet unsounded harp! Nothing is more fascinating. What wonder, if the ruddy morning beams should meet and blend? But just sixteen? Oh! it can never last.
My father was so eager for me to please him, I did my best; but I felt dull, and used to sit and shake my head at my harp, crying; or else I felt like an angry animal, and could have torn the strings. "Think how astonished I was when my mother came to me to say my father had money in his pockets! one pound, seventeen shillings, she counted: and he had not been playing!
But Redwald had taken up the conversation. "These halls of yours seem old, venerable thane; has your family long dwelt under this hospitable roof?" "My remote ancestor fought by the side of Cynric in the victories which led to the foundation of Mercia." "Ah! many a sad yet glorious tale and legend for the gleeman's harp, doubtless, adorns your annals." "Not many; we have our traditions."
The houses were beginning to show lights, and in the streets where the music was moving about there were lighted torches of bamboo and wood made in imitation of those in the church. From the streets the people in the houses might be seen through the windows in an atmosphere of music and flowers, moving about to the sounds of piano, harp, or orchestra.
He was a big man who played a harp." "And you told this to your school-fellows after you became acquainted here?" Mrs. Tellingham spoke very sternly indeed, and her gaze never left Ruth's face. The girl from the Red Mill hesitated but an instant. She had never spoken of the man and Miss Picolet to anybody save Helen; but she knew that her chum must have told all the particulars to Mary Cox.
Dunstan was then Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, whither the body of King Edmund the Magnificent was carried, to be buried. He had also made a harp that was said to play of itself which it very likely did, as AEolian Harps, which are played by the wind, and are understood now, always do.
He shivered now before the immediate majesty of the scene, and the historic meanings that enriched it as with an embroidered arras. Yet he gave out no more words than an Æolian harp shuddering with ecstasy in a wind too gentle to make it audible.
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