Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-23
For The Spy.

g By music, minds an equal temper know
Nor swell too nigh, nor sink too low
If in the breast tumnltuous joys arise
Music her soft persuasive voice applies;
Or, when the soul is pressed with cares
Exalts her with enliYening airsn
In all ages, Mr.. Editor, and in all climes Euterpe
of the sister goddesss has been most devotedly and
universally worshipped Music is the common language
of all animate beings; and while the delights of poetry
through all other media sculpture painting or whatever
else have been lost to thousands there was never yet
soul wholly dead to music when the requisite organs for
its enjoyment have been in possession or the influence
of music generally dlsed over the national mind few
persons have adequate conception And certainly Of
the advantages to be derived from its common cuItiya
ton among people, imagination has ample room
and verge enough to prophecy It cannot now be said
of us that musical people.
If for other reason, the love Of hcme which 1t fos
ters and fixes indebly in the mind should in any land
make it a national study The performance of simple
ballad (Annie Laurie) by regmenta band on the
eve Of the battle Of Inkermann brought to their knees
as by impulse three thousand British veterans
who aits concution Drawer soldiers and better men
Airs Of far less merit and significance have been eousl
as potent in awakening these emotions as with the
strangely renowned Rams des YachesD upon the
expatrated Swiss.
Few travellers have failed to notice the light which
CLEANS in the Frenchman's eye who in foreign land La
to the soul stirring strains Of the Marseilaise
while all who speak the language Of the author who have
heard the simple melody of Home Sweet Home -
in countries where home is less sacred than in our own
forget not The thrill Of melancholy joy its chords awoke
The cautious and undemOnstratiye Scot hearing from ms
ru de hut Of the Australian herdsman the grateful souns
of "Auid Lang syne" treads again the heather far
ava" and giorihes his manhood by holy tear. Mr.
o. Toole, on the eve Of coveted scrmmagen with
Mexican gold hunter, hears "aarryowen - pes,,r,,
through tho rafters Of neighborng "shielingD and
instantly hpging away his bit iV shickn grasps ths
astounded Senior by the hand and enthusiastically com.
mences lilt." The dreamy German starts from the
mist Of metaphysical contemplation at the FIRST sound n
the strains Of the Fatherand which greets his ear ON
foreign soil and at transported back to the sor,o
Rhine with all its countless associations Our na,,onai
airs are few aud those few lack character ht 10,
any Of us listen TO the familiar strains when oceans Iii
between as and the land we love- and how rivdIv ana
Instantly rush upon US remembrances Of absent loved
ones of the hills and valleys Of boyhoods love ma
Of the ished liberties bequeahed To US by tbnae NJ
wrested them from the wilderness. ""o
But am transcendng my limits with predatory master
Let us have musc Mr. Editor music for the MANY M ~
most popular and accessible forms. And this brn0s M
to the advertisement Of anew series Of six nTen Cent on
certsn by Flskes oOrnet Band, 81 Mechancs' Han, he
package Of tickets may be procured for one dollar
II cheap amusement Of healthy and eevatinV ehsrsc
ter s as It Is declared TO be- by the soundes poiice
economists Of the day, the great desderatum Il wonId
seem 70 be the duty well pleasure Of every good
citizen To encourage this form OF entertainment; and n e.
earnestly 70 be hoped that liberal encouraqement viii
sustain In this city. But there Is another and potent
why the citizens OF Worcester should promptly rea
pond 10 this appeal The Mcdaniel Institute a mart
In the enterprisej and at when a. never
BEFORE that institution needs the support and
men Of every friend, Il may be expected that mode OF
repenishing lis treasury wholly eptonable NAV
fully answer the expectations Of those who adopt H.