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There was no whistling at all permitted; singing of hymns was encouraged; no "playing" playing on Sunday was a distinct source of displeasure to Heaven! Are free-born men nine years of age to endure such tyranny with resignation? Ask the kids of today and with one voice, as true men and free, they will answer you, "Nit!"
Just now he is good for nothing except to sing doleful hymns in a key sad enough to frighten a transit mule away from a bag of mealies. When he is not singing sadly he is quoting Scripture and thinking about his immortal soul.
"Perhaps if uncle could arrange somehow I remember when I was quite small, back there before I left the valley, my dear god-mother had a night-school for laboring men. It was just lovely. They learned to read and to write and to calculate. Then afterwards, each night before they went home they would sing hymns and read the Bible and pray."
These were peasants, men and women, for the most part old, with faces gnarled and knotted like the trunks of ancient olives, and pale eyes which had a patient, rapt expression as if they saw Heaven opened, but a long way off. They took no notice of Iskender there beside them, though his adherence was conspicuous as a flower among grey rocks, but trudged onward, singing hymns in a strange tongue.
At intervals, during that day and the next, Netta made fitful efforts to exert herself, but it was evident to all that her body was getting weaker, and every one dreaded the journey in prospect, and longed for its conclusion. Netta had taken a sudden and violent interest in teaching her child to read and repeat hymns.
Agnes, among other less celebrated names at once represent the most substantial addition made to Latin lyrical poetry since Horace, and the complete triumph of the new religion. They are not, like the Ambrosian hymns, brief pieces meant for actual singing in churches. Out of the twenty-six poems only three are under one hundred lines in length, and that on the martyrdom of St.
So the night overtakes him, the labors of the day are past, his meditations withdraw him from the society of men, he is alone with Nature and with God; at such a moment the spirit of composition and utterance is upon him, and he hymns himself in those lofty and touching stanzas, "O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Together they proceeded to the cathedral of San Martino. At the porch Castruccio was received by the archbishop and the assembled clergy. He was placed in a chair of carved ivory, and carried in triumph up the nave to the chapel of the Holy Countenance. Here he descended, and, while he prostrated himself before the miraculous image, hymns and songs of praise burst from the choir."
At two they were all broad awake again, and again the sound of psalms and hymns was heard; and as the first gleams of light appeared each dressed himself as though for a wedding, and carefully turned down the ruffle of his collar so as to give the executioner no extra trouble. Swiftly, in order, and without much cruelty the gory work was done.
Watts' hymns into prose, I know that there is trouble coming. I did not have to wait long to find out what was in store. "Claire Lane's aunt," she said, "does a great deal of work for the children of the very poor. That is a noble thing to do." It is. I have heard of Miss Lane's work. Indeed I give a subscription every year towards carrying it on.
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