We are a gloomy people, Gabriel, we have it in our very marrow, we do not know how to sing unless we are threatening or weeping, and that song is the most beautiful which contains most sighs, most painful groans and gasps of agony.

Blondel had grown from a minstrel-boy To a very romantic troubadour Whose soul was music, whose song was joy, Whose only motto was Vive l'amour!

The war-songthe death-songthe song of victorythe cradle-chantthe lament for the slainthese are the overflowings of the essential poetry of their untaught souls.

"I 'member one song they used to sing called the 'Bonnie Blue Flag.' 'Jeff Davis is our President And Lincoln is a fool; Jeff Davis rides a fine white horse While Lincoln rides a mule.' 'Hurrah!

The Song of the Reel Close by the edge of the lily pads, there's a flash and swirl of spray, And the line draws taut, and the rod dips low, and I sing as he speeds away; And I whir and click with the joy of life, as the line runs in and out, And I laugh with glee as I reel him in, the gamy and speckled trout.

My cradle-song was this, Strange inarticulate sorrows of the sea, Blithe rhythms upgathered from the Sirens' caves.

his songs are stars in heaven, but his sins are snakes in hell: each shall bless and torment him in turn.

For him the native songs were Arabic music, as was also the alphabet of the ancient Filipinoshe was certain of this, although he did not know Arabic nor had he ever seen that alphabet.

All the song is that we meet Never now 'Hast thou yet forgotten, sweet?' 'Love, hast thou?' V THE DAY OF THE TWO DAFFODILS 'The daffodils are fine this year,' I said; 'O yes, but see my crocuses,' said she.

A song, for me, you'll ken, is muckle mair than just a few words and a melody.

THE HERMIT THRUSH "When we return to the house," said the Doctor, "I will show you the Veery and Hermit Thrush also; for whether or not you will hear the Hermit sing will depend very much upon what part of North America you live or travel in, and this bird's song is its chief claim to fame.

He listens, and the song that goes up from the throats of the redeemed is, "Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and didst purchase us for God with thy blood.

p. 247.).The song beginning "When Harold was invaded" has long been a favourite in this county.

Song was the dewdrop which gathered during the long dark night of despondency, and was sure to glitter in the very first blink of the sun.

And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

This song is a compliment to the Duchess of Portsmouth, Charles's mistress, on her first coming to England.

These rude fireside songs were no mean factors in preparing the nation to welcome Shakespeare.

The old Song of Chevey Chase is the favourite Ballad of the common People of England; and Ben Johnson used to say he had rather have been the Author of it than of all his Works.

Butler's The Song of Roland (Riverside Literature Series) is an English prose translation of a popular story from the Charlemagne cycle.

"I 'member one song they used to sing called the 'Bonnie Blue Flag.' 'Jeff Davis is our President And Lincoln is a fool; Jeff Davis rides a fine white horse While Lincoln rides a mule.' 'Hurrah!

Song is the treasure of the poor.

Mr. Coleridge Taylor's "Song of Hiawatha" was the hit of the Festival, and its performance at Birmingham has hallmarked the young composer's fresh, picturesque, and melodic music.

"De songs we used to sing in old days when I was a kid after de War wasn't no purtier dan what we used to sing wid our own minstrel show when we was at our best twenty-five and thirty years ago; songs like 'Jungletown,' 'Red Wing,' and 'Mammy's Li'l Alabama Coon.'

After the poem we have just named, Mr. Campbell's SONGS are the happiest efforts of his Muse:breathing freshness, blushing like the morn, they seem, like clustering roses, to weave a chaplet for love and liberty; or their bleeding words gush out in mournful and hurried succession, like "ruddy drops that visit the sad heart" of thoughtful Humanity.

Such a song is the well-known "Steal away to Jesus.