angel-donation

Updated: July 13, 2025

So that the brilliant pianist of the concert hall; the cornet-player of the "Army" ring; the blind fiddler at the corner; the mother, singing her angel-donation to sleep; Clancy, thundering forth something concerning his broken heart, whilst tailing up the stringing cattle; the canary in its cage; the magpie on the fence are each setting in motion the complex machinery of music, and with about equal scientific knowledge of what they are doing.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life