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If you ask me why I put a Latin line at the end, it was because I had to show that it was a song connected with the Universal Fountain and with European culture, and with all that Heresy combats. I sang it to a lively hymn-tune that I had invented for the occasion. I then thought what a fine fellow I was, and how pleasant were my friends when I agreed with them.
When this unseemly scramble was over, the Saint who, leaning his brow on his hands, had appeared not to notice these proceedings struck up a solemn hymn-tune. Then he put his hands over his eyes, as if lost in an ecstasy; after which he suddenly began to call out our names, coupled with the places we came from, astonishing us all in turn.
"But I wanted to speak to you about the choir-practice to-morrow." And there ensued a little business-talk between parson and organist. Judith took up a bit of work and Percival leant against the chimney-piece. Presently Lisle went back to the piano and tried over a hymn-tune which Mr. Clifton had brought. The clergyman stood solemnly by. "I met Gordon a few minutes ago," he said.
Junior and me are drivin' things, too, this mornin';" and he stalked away, whistling a hymn-tune in rather lively time. I said: "Youngsters, I think I'll get my garden book and be sure I'm right about sowing the radish and beet seed and the peas. Mr. Jones has rather shaken my confidence." When Merton came with the next load I told him that he could put the horse in the stable and help us.
"Not a bit. If it will ease your mind I'll change to a business suit." "I don't care. You know how I feel; we had a little talk about hats a spell ago, you remember. If you're willin' to take me 'just as I am, without a plea, as the hymn-tune says, why, I cal'late I'll say yes and go. Set down and wait while I get on my ceremonials."
But when the shrill-voiced leader of the choir sounded the key-note of the hymn-tune through his nose, and the growling bass-viol joined in unison, while the congregation rose, and Dr.
'You should have been in the field, helping with the hay, said she, in her calm, pleasant voice. I had heard her as I came near the house softly chanting some hymn-tune, and the peacefulness of that seemed to be brooding over her now. 'Perhaps I should. It looks as if it was going to rain. 'Yes; there is thunder about. Mother has had to go to bed with one of her bad headaches. Now you are come in
It quite does away with the 'hymn-tune' style of early composition, which is such a trap to many amateurs. Side by side with this work it is advisable to get the class to extemporize chants, under the same restrictions as have been put on the melodies, i.e. they will begin by using only tonic and dominant chords, then adding the subdominant, and so on.
As it passed out of sight, I heard the wheels cease, one by one, their crunch and grind on the gravelled road up the slope of the grave-yard. I knew they had reached that hill-side where the dead of Ridgefield lie calmer than its living; and presently the long-drawn notes of that hymn-tune consecrated to such occasions old China rose and fell in despairing cadences on my ear.
He said he wished he'd a couple of hundred pounds to take it and start. The man's dead, and his wife wanted to sell the business, but she can't get an offer. The meeting which Jack was attending had began to sing a hymn. The voices, harmonised by distance, sounded pleasantly. 'I like that hymn-tune, Mr. Bunce, said Totty, 'don't you? 'I don't think much about hymns, Miss Nancarrow.
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