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"For Ireland's harpers," he was boasting with a reckless air of pride, "were better than any harpers in the world." "Liars?" asked Adam blankly. Kenny found his occasional pretense of deafness trying in the extreme. "Harpers!" he repeated in a loud voice. "And you heard me before." Adam nodded. "What do you mean," demanded Kenny suspiciously, "that you did hear me or you didn't?"
Bands of harpers and other musicians were placed near him within the enclosure, and he could listen to their strains while he took his pastime. The musical instruments which appear distinctly on the Sassanian sculptures are the harp, the horn, the drum, and the flute or pipe. The harp is triangular, and has seven strings; it is held in the lap, and played apparently by both hands.
What were bars and bolts and prison-walls to him, whose eyes were anointed to see, and whose ears opened to hear, the glory and the rejoicing of the City of God, when the pilgrims were conducted to its golden gates, from the black and bitter river, with the sounding trumpeters, the transfigured harpers with their crowns of gold, the sweet voices of angels, the welcoming peal of bells in the holy city, and the songs of the redeemed ones?
What would I have given to hear the music of that 'voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder. I mean the 'harpers harping with their harps' the 'new song before the throne, before the four beasts and the elders. It is recorded that 'no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. That is a goodly multitude.
The Norman lords in many parts of the country lived right in the midst of an Irish population, with its Brehon judges, shanachies, harpers, and other officers, attached to their customs of gossipred, fostering, tanistry, gavelkind, and other usages, which the parliaments of Drogheda, Kilkenny, Dublin, Trim, and other places, were soon to declare lewd and barbarous.
Three generations of Harpers had successively presided over its destinies; its magazines and books had become almost a household necessity in all parts of the United States, and its authors included many of the names most celebrated in American letters. The average American could no more associate the idea of bankruptcy with this great business than with the federal Treasury itself.
"Will ther Harpers stand to what ther two of us agrees on tergither in full accord an' leave cavillin' an' wranglin' amongst ourselves fer a more seemly time?" Aaron nodded his head. "So long as us two stands agreed we kin handle 'em, I reckon." The young man nodded his head in a gesture of swift decision. "All right then! I'm goin' over thar ter Hump Doane's house an' reason with them hotheads.
No animal accurst by Jove Music's sweet charms can ever love. What sayest thou now, Epicurus? Wilt thou get thee up betimes in the morning, and go to the theatre to hear the harpers and flutists play?
Within the palace a hundred harpers smote their strings, flooding the scene with music. Slowly each circumference began to move. Step and measure increased their speed. The circles were now revolving, one around another, with swift and bewildering motion. At a signal the silent figures broke into song. They sang of the glories of Jerusalem and the great king.
In after-life, he often expressed the emphatic opinion that our school histories were viciously planned and written, preserving a spirit that boded no good for the future of our country and the world. In the nineties, he was asked by the Harpers to write a history of the United States for young people.
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