SEE Choir gems, no.3. RODEHEAVER, HOMER A. SEE Triumphant service songs.

(In The Volunteer choir, Apr. 1934)

(In The Choir leader, Nov. 1947)

(In The Choir leader, Nov. 1947) © 4Oct47; B107749.

(In The Choir leader, Nov. 1947)

(In The Volunteer choir, Nov. 1947)

(In The Volunteer choir, Nov. 1947)

By Ira B. Wilson (Noel Benson) (In The Choir herald, June 1948)

(In The Choir herald, June 1948) NM: music arrangement & text.

(In The Choir herald, July 1948) NM: words & music.

(In The Choir herald, July 1948) NM: music.

(In The choir herald, July 1948)

(In The Choir herald, July 1948) NM: words & music.

(In The Choir herald, July 1948)

(In The Choir leader, July 1948) NM: music.

(In The Volunteer choir, July 1948) NM: arr. & words.

(In The Volunteer choir, July 1948)

(In The Volunteer choir, July 1948) NM: music.

(In The Volunteer choir, July 1948) NM: text & music arr.

(In The Volunteer choir, Aug. 1948) NM: arr.

(In The Volunteer choir, Aug. 1948) NM: music & words.

(In The Choir herald, Aug. 1948)

C. D. Coppard (C); 9Jan76; R635212. R635239. Anthems for the mixed choir.

Charles IX. himself sang in the choir, and he composed a few hunting-airs.

Note, too, the roof of the choir, and the ancient glass in the S. windows.

At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shamefac'd night array'd; The helmèd Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd, Harping in loud and solemn quire, With unexpressive notes to Heaven's new-born Heir.

And there is seven years and seven lents of pardon; and the body of St. George lieth in the middle of the quire or choir of the said chapel, and in his tomb is an hole that a man may put in his hand.

Divine Matilda's angel did appear, Deck'd like a vestal ready for heaven's quire, And to this earthly trunk will not come near.

The first was that I always had upon my table a quire of large-sized scribbling-paper sewn together: and upon this paper everything was entered: translations into Latin and out of Greek, mathematical problems, memoranda of every kind (the latter transferred when necessary to the subsequent pages), and generally with the date of the day.

[parts of a church: list] chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo^, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis^, credence, baldachin, baldacchino^; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum [Lat.], jube^; mourner's bench, mourner's seat.

He seems most sincerely religious, especially on solemn days; for he comes often to church to make a shew, [and is a part of the quire hangings.]

" "Who will pay more?" demanded the quire, throwing himself back in his chair.

Now all heavens quire of Angels sing Amen, And blesse theis true borne nuptials with their blisse; And Neece tho you have cosind me in this, Ile uncle you yet in an other thing, And quite deceive your expectation.

Milton alludes to the passage in his sonnet to Henry Lawes: "Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or story.

[The quire and musick; the fryars make a lane with ducks and obeysance.

And so, within fifteen days, they came to Joyous Gard, and there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him....

The regular students are provided with portfolios, or rather, soft leathern pouches, which they can fold and pocket, containing the heft or quire of paper on which the lecture is transcribed by them wholly or in part.

"Everyone also to beare a faggot of wood before the procession on a certain Sunday at Burford from the Quire doore going out, to the quire doore going in, and once to bear a faggot at the burning of a heretic.

"Everyone also to beare a faggot of wood before the procession on a certain Sunday at Burford from the Quire doore going out, to the quire doore going in, and once to bear a faggot at the burning of a heretic.

There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.

Gazing, my trancèd spirit straightway flies Beyond the zone to which the stars aspire; I hear the blent notes of the white-wing'd quire Around Immortal Love triumphant rise.

320 Let angels' voices with their harps conspire, But keep the auspicious infant from the quire; Late let him sing above, and let us know No sweeter music than his cries below.

There thou, sweet saint, before the quire shalt go, As harbinger of heaven, the way to show, The way which thou so well hast learn'd below.

Now sing, ye joyful angels, and admire Your brother's voice that conies to mend your quire Sing you,while endless tears our eyes bestow: 80 For like Amyntas none is left below.

None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. 2 Timotheus, placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:

" To the village he drove, sought young Daphne's old sire, Counted gold by rouleaus, and bank notes by the quire, And promised the old buck a share in't, If his daughter he'd givefor the amorous fool Thought of young ladies' hearts and affections the rule Apparently rests with a parent.

It is said that Frederick the Great went into battle with a vial of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verse in the other.

Till I sing day from Tethis armes, and fire With ayry raptures the whole morning quire, Till the small birds their Silvan notes display And sing with us, 'Joy to Parthenia!' (ib.)

He ceas'd, and as approving all he spoke, The quire of birds their heav'nly tunes renew, The turtles sigh'd, and sighs with kisses broke, The fowls to shades unseen, by pairs withdrew; It seem'd the laurel chaste, and stubborn oak, And all the gentle trees on earth that grew, It seem'd the land, the sea, and heav'n above, All breath'd out fancy sweet, and sigh'd out love.

" When Rosamond reached home she found Anne beside her mother-in-law, provided with a quire of note-paper and pile of envelopes.