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Updated: June 4, 2025
I might nae doubt hae heard the curate linking awa at it in his white sark yonder, and the musicians playing on whistles, mair like a penny-wedding than a sermon and to the boot of that, I might hae gaen to even-song, and heard Daddie Docharty mumbling his mass muckle the better I wad hae been o' that!" He was here yesterday."
'Will this day niver come to an end? cried Bell, plaintively. 'Oh, mother! it'll come to an end some time, never fear. I've heerd say "Be the day weary or be the day long, At length it ringeth to even-song." 'To even-song to even-song, repeated Bell. 'D'ye think now that even-song means death, Sylvie? 'I cannot tell I cannot bear it.
Spring is all very well for those who have constant leisure; it is good to watch the gradual bursting of early buds; it is good to hear the thrush chant his even-song of love; it is good to rest the eye on the glorious clouds of bloom that seem to float in the orchards. But the midsummer, the gallant midsummer, pranked in manifold splendours, is the true season of poetry for the toilers.
A president may not be raised at any hour of the day, except the king, whom he obeyeth, be invocated; nor at the shutting in of the evening. Knights from day-dawning till sun-rising, or from even-song till sun-set. "The forme of adjuring and citing the spirits aforesaid to appeare.
The bell begins to toll for even-song, but neither Paul nor Clotilde move, so close they are together, only the past lies between them. Paul reads the inscription though he knows it only too well, and then he once more rests his gaze on the woman before him; the woman he once loved! nay, does still love, for a great desire to comfort her comes over him.
While he waited, I watched a pair of swans flit ghost-like over the silken surface of the lake. Between us and a dark bank of wood the lights of the house flamed red. The melancholy even-song of a blackbird wailed out from a shrubbery beside us. Then Herbert Brande wrote in his note-book, and tearing out the page, he handed it to me, saying: "That is the address of the last man who quitted us."
I began to understand why the Japanese are so fond of it that they deem it not unworthy a place in nature's vocal pantheon but little lower than the song of the nightingale, and echo its sentiment in verse. And indeed it seems to me that his soul must be conventionally tuned in whom this even-song of the ricefields stirs no responsive chord. Across the Etchiu Delta.
They cut out the second confession and absolution and the second batch of psalms, but retained the second lesson and the second canticle. The English even-song is therefore simply the Latin vespers and compline pressed into a single service.
She expressed her sorrow to the head boy, who occasionally sang "Oh! for the wings of a dove!" as a solo at even-song, and was consequently looked up to with deep respect by all the village. "I thought you always wore them when you sang!" she said plaintively. "It makes it so much more impressive. Couldn't you send for them?"
The even-song over, the household quietly retired to rest. Chance had graciously brought us to the Hof in the midst of preparations for the festival of the Holy Father. On Sunday, June 18, the whole Catholic world was to celebrate the astounding fact of Pio Nono having exceeded the days of Saint Peter.
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