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# The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier/Official Piety

OFFICIAL PIETY
Suggested by reading a state paper, wherein the higher law is invoked to sustain the lower one. [Originally entitled Lines.]
A pious magistrate! sound his praise throughout The wondering churches. Who shall henceforth doubt That the long-wished millennium draweth nigh? Sin in high places has become devout, Tithes mint, goes painful-faced, and prays its lie Straight up to Heaven, and calls it piety!
The pirate, watching from his bloody deck The weltering galleon, heavy with the gold Of Acapulco, holding death in check While prayers are said, brows crossed, and beads are told; The robber, kneeling where the wayside cross On dark Abruzzo tells of life’s dread loss From his own carbine, glancing still abroad For some new victim, offering thanks to God! Rome, listening at her altars to the cry Of midnight Murder, while her hounds of hell Scour France, from baptized cannon and holy bell And thousand-throated priesthood, loud and high, Pealing Te Deums to the shuddering sky, “Thanks to the Lord, who giveth victory!” What prove these, but that crime was ne’er so black As ghostly cheer and pious thanks to lack? Satan is modest. At Heaven’s door he lays His evil offspring, and, in Scriptural phrase And saintly posture, gives to God the praise And honor of the monstrous progeny. What marvel, then, in our own time to see His old devices, smoothly acted o’er,— Official piety, locking fast the door Of Hope against three million souls of men,— Brothers, God’s children, Christ’s redeemed,—and then, With uprolled eyeballs and on bended knee, Whining a prayer for help to hide the key!
# The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier/On Receiving an Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior

ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE’S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR
All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain, Like shadows on the winter sky, Like frost upon the pane;
But now my torpid fancy wakes, And, on thy Eagle’s plume, Rides forth, like Sindbad on his bird, Or witch upon her broom!
Below me roar the rocking pines, Before me spreads the lake Whose long and solemn-sounding waves Against the sunset break.
I hear the wild Rice-Eater thresh The grain he has not sown; I see, with flashing scythe of fire, The prairie harvest mown!
I hear the far-off voyager’s horn; I see the Yankee’s trail,— His foot on every mountain-pass, On every stream his sail.
By forest, lake, and waterfall, I see his pedler show; The mighty mingling with the mean, The lofty with the low.
He ’s whittling by St. Mary’s Falls, Upon his loaded wain; He ’s measuring o’er the Pictured Rocks, With eager eyes of gain.
I hear the mattock in the mine, The axe-stroke in the dell, The clamor from the Indian lodge, The Jesuit chapel bell!
I see the swarthy trappers come From Mississippi’s springs; And war-chiefs with their painted brows, And crests of eagle wings.
Behind the seared squaw’s birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves.
I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
The rudiments of empire here Are plastic yet and warm; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form!
Each rude and jostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find,— The raw material of a State, Its muscle and its mind!
And, westering still, the star which leads The New World in its train Has tipped with fire the icy spears Of many a mountain chain.
The snowy cones of Oregon Are kindling on its way; And California’s golden sands Gleam brighter in its ray!
Then blessings on thy eagle quill, As, wandering far and wide, I thank thee for this twilight dream And Fancy’s airy ride!
Yet, welcomer than regal plumes, Which Western trappers find, Thy free and pleasant thoughts, chance sown, Like feathers on the wind.
Thy symbol be the mountain-bird, Whose glistening quill I hold; Thy home the ample air of hope, And memory’s sunset gold!
In thee, let joy with duty join, And strength unite with love, The eagle’s pinions folding round The warm heart of the dove!
So, when in darkness sleeps the vale Where still the blind bird clings, The sunshine of the upper sky Shall glitter on thy wings!
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Reports in American Newspapers/Hindu Civilisation

HINDU CIVILISATION
[Although the lecture at Streator on October 9 was well attended, the Streator Daily Free Press of October 9 ran the following somewhat dreary review:]
The lecture of this celebrated Hindoo at the Opera House, Saturday night, was very interesting. By comparative philology, he sought to establish the long admitted relationship between the Aryan races and their descendants in the new world. He mildly defended the caste system of India which keeps three-fourths of the people in utter and humiliating subjection, and boasted that the India of today was the same India that had watched for centuries the meteoric nations of the world flash across the horizon and sink into oblivion. In common with the people, he loves the past. He lives not for self, but for God. In his country a premium is placed on beggary and tramps, though not so distinguished in his lecture. When the meal is prepared, they wait for some man to come along who is first served, then the animals, the servants, the man of the house and lastly the woman of the household. Boys are taken at 10 years of age and are kept by professors for a period of ten to twenty years, educated and sent forth to resume their former occupations or to engage in a life of endless wandering, preaching, and praying, taking along only that which is given them to eat and wear, but never touching money. Vivekananda is of the latter class. Men approaching old age withdraw from the world, and after a period of study and prayer, when they feel themselves sanctified, they also go forward spreading the gospel. He observed that leisure was necessary for intellectual development and scored Americans for not educating the Indians whom Columbus found in a state of savagery. In this he exhibited a lack of knowledge of conditions. His talk was lamentably short and much was left unsaid of seeming greater importance than much that was said.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Reports in American Newspapers
## Reports in American Newspapers

* India: Her Religion and Customs
* Hindus at the Fair
* At the Parliament of Religions
* Personal Traits
* Reincarnation
* Hindu Civilisation
* An Interesting Lecture
* The Hindoo Religion
* The Hindoo Monk
* Plea for Tolerance
* Manners and Customs in India
* Hindoo Philosophy
* Miracles
* The Divinity of Man
* The Love of God
* The Women of India
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Reports in American Newspapers/An Interesting Lecture

AN INTERESTING LECTURE
(Wisconsin State Journal, November 21, 1893)
The lecture at the Congregational Church [Madison] last night by the celebrated Hindoo monk, Vivekananda, was an extremely interesting one, and contained much of sound philosophy and good religion. Pagan though he be, Christianity may well follow many of his teachings. His creed is as wide as the universe, taking in all religions, and accepting truth wherever it may be found. Bigotry and superstition and idle ceremony, he declared, have no place in "the religions of India".
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Reports in American Newspapers/Miracles

MIRACLES
(Evening News, February 17, 1894)
I cannot comply with the request of The News to work a miracle in proof of my religion," said Vive Kananda to a representative of this paper, after being shown The News editorial on the subject. "In the first place, I am no miracle worker, and in the second place the pure Hindoo religion I profess is not based on miracles. We do not recognize such a thing as miracles. There are wonders wrought beyond our five senses, but they are operated by some law. Our religion has nothing to do with them. Most of the strange things which are done in India and reported in the foreign papers are sleight-of-hand tricks or hypnotic illusions. They are not the performances of the wise men. These do not go about the country performing their wonders in the market places for pay. They can be seen and known only by those who seek to know the truth, and not moved by childish curiosity."
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXVIII Margo

CLXXXVIII
To Sister Nivedita
[On a picture postcard showing dervishes and local fish merchants, Swami Vivekananda wrote the following note.]
[POSTMARKED: CONSTANTINOPLE
November 1, 1900]
Dear Margo [Margot], the blessings of the howling dervishes go with you — Yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA.
P.S. All love to Mrs. Bull.
V.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXV Mrs. Hansbrough—

CLXXV
To Mrs. Alice (Shanti) Hansbrough
THE VEDANTA SOCIETY,
102 EAST 58TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y.
[End of June 1900]
DEAR MRS. HANSBROUGH —
I have not written you a line since you left San Francisco. I am well and things are going on well with me.
I am in New York once more, where they have got now a home for the Society and their headquarters. I and the other Swamis also live there.
A San Francisco lady [Miss Minnie C. Boock] now here owns a plot of land near Mt. Hamilton, 12 miles east of Lick observatory — 160 acres in area. She is going to make us a present of it. It would be nice for a summer gathering for us in California. If friends like to go there now, I will send them the written authority. Will you write to Mrs. Aspinall and Miss Bell etc., about it? I am rather desirous it should be occupied this summer as soon as possible. There is only a log cabin on the land; for the rest they must have tents.
I am sorry I can not spare a Swami yet.
With all love to you and Mrs. [Carrie Mead] Wyckoff and the baby of the family.
Ever yours in the Truth,
VIVEKANANDA
P.S. Tell Helen [the youngest Mead sister] — I thank her for her kind invitation, but [am] so sorry [I] can not accept it now. After all, you three sisters have become a part of my mind forever. What about the club?
V.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXI Christine

CLXXXI
To Sister Christine
6, PLACE DES ETATS-UNIS
14th August 1900
DEAR CHRISTINE,
Your letter from New York reached just now. You must have got mine from France, directed to 528 Congress.
Well — it was a dreary, funeral-like time. Just think what it is to a morbid man like me!
I am going to the Exposition, etc., trying to pass time. Had a lecture here. Père Haycinth [Hyacinthe], the celebrated clergy — man here, seems to like me much. Well, well what? Nothing. Only, you are so good, and I am a morbid fool — that is all about it. But "Mother" — She knows best. I have served Her through weal or woe. Thy will be done. Well, I have news of my lost brother [Mahendranath Datta]. He is a great traveller, that is good. So you see, the cloud is lifting slowly. My love to your mother and sister and to Mrs. Funkey [Funke].
With love,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXVIII Abhedananda

CLXXVIII
To Swami Abhedananda
102 E. 58TH STREET,
NEW YORK,
24 July 1900.
DEAR ABHEDANANDA,
I would have gladly remained here, but sastây kisti mât.[6]* Got a fine berth — one room all to myself — on a fine vessel.[7]* As soon as August comes it will be a terrible Bhida [crowd] as the companies are reducing prices.
Things are going quite all right. Mr. Johnson has returned to their house, and all the rooms are full except two. You write to Mrs. Crane whether you want to get them or not.
You need not feel the least anxiety about the N.Y. work; it will go as a marriage bull next season. Give my love to Mrs. [Mary B.] Coulston and explain to her the circumstances.
With all love,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXVII Mrs. Hansbrough—

CLXXVII
To Mrs. Alice (Shanti) Hansbrough
102 E. 58TH STREET,
NEW YORK,
3rd July 1900.
MY DEAR MRS. HANSBROUGH —
This is to introduce Swami Turiyananda. The lady who gave the piece of land for Vedanta work belongs to Los Angeles. She has taken Turiyananda with her. He is a great spiritual teacher — but has no experience in platform work.
The best thing would be to help him to start a centre for quiet and rest and meditation in the land near San Jose.
With all love to the holy Trinity.[6]*
Ever yours in the Lord,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXIV Christina

CLXXXIV
To Sister Christine
6 PLACE DES ETATS UNIS,
PARIS,
15th September 1900.
DEAR CHRISTINA,
Your letter was very reassuring. I am so glad this summer did you good. So you did not get enamoured of New York City.
Well, I am getting enamoured of Paris. I now am living with a M. Jules Bois, a French savant, who has been a student and admirer of my works.
He talks very little English; in consequence, I have to trot out my jargon French and am succeeding well, he says. I can now understand if he will talk slowly.
Day after tomorrow I go to Bretagne [Brittany] where our American friends are enjoying the sea breeze — and the massage.[6]*
I go with M. Bois for a short visit; après cet [after that] I don't know where I go. I am getting quite Frenchy, connaissezvous [do you know]? I am also studying grammaire and hard at work. [Sentence torn off] In a few months I hope to be Frenchy, but by that time I will forget it by staying in England.
I am strong, well and content — no morbidity.
Au revoir,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXVI Sister Christine

CLXXVI
To Sister Christine
[On July 3, 1900, before departing for Detroit with Swami Turiyananda and Miss Minnie Boock, Swami Vivekananda dispatched a telegram.]
[POSTMARKED: NEW YORK
July 3, 1900]
STARTED REACH TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 2 P.M. COME STATION WABASH.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXIII Christine

CLXXXIII
To Sister Christine
6, PLACE DES ETATS-UNIS, PARIS
23rd August 1900
DEAR CHRISTINE,
What is the matter with you? Are you ill? Unhappy? What makes you silent? I had only one little note from you in all this time.
I am getting a bit nervous about you — not much. Otherwise I am enjoying this city. Did Mrs. A. P. Huntington write you?
I am well — keeping well as far as it is possible with me.
With love,
VIVEKANANDA
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXII Nivedita

CLXXXII
To Sister Nivedita
6, PLACE DES ETATS UNIS,
PARIS,
23rd August 1900.
DEAR NIVEDITA,
The manuscript accounts of the Math just reached. It is delightful reading. I am so pleased with it.
I am going to print a thousand or more to be distributed in England, America and India. I will only add a begging paragraph in the end.
What do you think the cost will be?
With love to you and Mrs. Bull,
VIVEKANANDA.
# The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Letters - Fifth Series/CLXXXIX Sister Christine

CLXXXIX
To Sister Christine
[On a postcard, showing the temple of Hepaistos, popularly called Thesion, Swami Vivekananda wrote.]
[POSTMARKED: ATHENS,
November 11, 1900]
Great fun. I write without the possibility of being written to, as I am changing place all the time. How do you do?
VIVEKANANDA
# The Chemical Elements

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# The Choirmaster's Manual/Chapter 10

CHAPTER X
A WORD ON MEN'S VOICES
For the "mixed" voice, the following exercise will be useful for basses who have difficulty in getting a mixed voice—the voce mista of the Italians.
Sing the scale on "ah," changing to "aw" on or about B natural, and endeavor to "fill the mouth" with sound.
Tenors use the same exercise, changing to "aw" on C♯ or D.
When these notes are obtained, practise the sliding vowels oo-oh-ah with the boys.
The following faults of tone are due to the causes named after them:
Too hollow sound:—Pharnyx too widely open.
Choked sound:—Throat muscles are rigid.
Guttural sound:—Tongue is curled up or stiffened.
Dental ring sound:—Mouth insufficiently opened.
Beware of too much nasal resonance. It is simply the effect of wrong direction in resonance, but is the cause of a great deal of unpleasantness, especially in men's voices, and is developed by many teachers through excessive practice on the syllable "ni."
# The Choirmaster's Manual

THE
Choirmaster's Manual
A GUIDE
FOR
BUSY AND AMATEUR CHOIRMASTERS
ESPECIALLY FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOY'S VOICE
AND FOR THE
TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE OF BOY-CHOIRS
BY
HAROLD NEWTON CLARE
NEW YORK
G. SCHIRMER
35 Union Square
1908
Copyright, 1908, by G. Schirmer.
20534
To My Brother
ARTHUR J. CLARE
Organist and Choirmaster of the Church of St. John the Divine Balham (London), England
PREFACE
"A theory that is not the outcome of successful practice is worth but little: and only such practice is valuable from which a clear, intelligible theory can be deduced." [Bagge.]
Considering the numerous books already in existence on the subject of Choir-Training and Voice-Production, one might well be pardoned for asking the question, Is there room for yet another? The author, a choirmaster with twenty years' experience, having read a great many books on the subject, finds that those written by the highest authorities take too much for granted. As an example, most of the books by the great cathedral and other well-known choirmasters are written from the standpoint of their own experience, which experience, inasmuch as it invariably means dealing with only the very best of picked voices, boys especially, is practically valueless to the choirmaster of a small parish church in England, or a town church in America, where only the crudest of material can be obtained at the start, often without any "tradition" behind them; besides many other difficulties which a successful choirmaster of the prominent church is happily ignorant of, or does not choose to enlarge upon.
​The exercises are all explained, and have had the test of nearly twenty years' continual usage in conquering faults and producing the results desired.
The book is primarily intended for directors of choirs in our smaller towns; but, nevertheless, the exercises will be found helpful to those who have, perhaps, been obtaining results by a more circuitous method.
CONTENTS
Chapter I, pp. 1–5. A Talk to Choirmasters: Selection of Boys—Tests—Order—Discipline—Age—Probationers—Agreements—Payment—Deferred Pay—Music Hints for the Practice-room.
Chapter II, pp. 5–7. On Breathing—Exercises 1–3.
Chapter III, pp. 7–10. On Voice-production, Exercise 1—Registers, Exercises 2–4. Resonance.
Chapter IV, pp. 10–12. On the Attack, Exercises 5–8.
Chapter V, pp. 12–14. Blending the Registers, Exercises 9–12.
Chapter VI, pp. 15–17. The Scales, Exercises 13–22.
Chapter VII, pp. 18–19. Enunciation.
Chapter VIII, pp. 20–24. Notation—Time—Sight-reading—Interval-practice, Exercises 23–24.
Chapter IX, pp. 24–28. Expression—Some Words Denoting Expression—Exercises 25–26; Beating Time—Rhythm—Phrasing—Balance.
Chapter X, p. 29. A Word on Men's Voices, Exercise 27.
Chapter XI, pp. 30–34. Full Practice—Psalms—Hymns—Monotoning—Conclusion.
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# The Choir Invisible

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# The Choir Invisible (Eliot)

* "Oh, may I join the Choir invisible" in The poems of George Eliot (1884)
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# The Choirmaster's Manual/Chapter 3

CHAPTER III
ON VOICE-PRODUCTION AND THE REGISTERS
Having obtained a fair increase in expansion, slow notes on "ah" should be taken, very softly. The student should try to imagine that breath is being inhaled, a sort of yawning feeling. This has the advantage of making the voice bright and clear by raising the soft palate, and also of saving the breath.
Exercise 1.
Registers. On the subject of registers much has been written. The best results have been gained by "anticipating" the head-register in ascending, and bringing the head-register down in descending scales. This is the "golden rule" of singing; in many books the first half is taught. "Never allow the lower register to be forced up."
Exercise 2.
The best vowel for head-tones is "oo." Take F on ​the fifth line, softly and clearly, then sing descending scale without altering the feeling in head or throat.
Practise diligently, taking a semitone higher each time. It is impossible to sing "oo" as an upper medium note on F or F♯ in most cases. If a clear head-tone is not obtained by all boys, it aids the effort to place the right foot slightly forward, resting the weight of the body on it, at the same time lowering the head a little, and thinking of the top of the head. With the writer, this has proved efficacious in all cases.
Having obtained clear head-notes on A♯, B, or C, or as high as you wish to train the boys, care must be taken that the "oo" vowel-tone does not become habitual with all head-notes. To avoid this use the following:
Exercise 3.
In singing this, take care that the tones on "oh" and "ah" are not louder than on "oo." These three vowel-sounds must be gradually merged into one another, "oh" being felt in the same position as "oo." This exercise gives a boy a real feeling of breath-control, especially on ​the lower notes, as "ah" produces a much louder tone than "oo" if left to itself.
To get rid of breathy sounds, practise Exercise 4.
Exercise 4.
(Do not sing these notes staccato, but as short as possible. Feel tones are made by a sort of "click" at the vocal cords, not by action of ribs. Do not allow the ribs to move until after the tone is made.)
Resonance. The registers of a voice are divided according to the feeling produced in the singer. The "lower medium" notes sound as if produced in the back of the mouth; the "upper medium," in the front of the mouth above the front teeth; the "head" tones are felt in the highest part of the back of the head.
The mouth is the chief resonance-chamber, and the wider it is open the greater the resounding space and the louder the voice; the pharynx and head-cavities all act as resonators, reinforcing the tones by the addition of overtones. "Ah" is the best vowel-sound for producing resonance.