The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-18

dreams whereby his being is brought out
through reverence TO his master. Can a
person love God, humanity, or themselves.
II they are not filled with some part Of
that divine attraction; the necessary vol
cano of existence?
The sad are made happy by its inter-
course in their behalf. The creation
of our desires is possible through our
being urged TO do the bidding OF our
souls. which are made better being filled
with music. Optimism is helped on to
existence by the strange influence of
music
Be happy by making happy and your
soul viii be filled with music so that you
may expose your secret of optimism.
+. Fl. DRESSING.
Spencer tells us that the emotions
are the masters. the intellect the serv-
ant" Another thinker says Of music that
mo other art attacks so powerfully the
emotions still another. that mo other
art tells US such old forgotten secrets
about ourselves
II the emotions are the masters, and
who will deny that they are not, which
of US can comprehend the mighty power
signihed by the word music? That II
can fire the brain and move the lethargie
to the most heroic actions or can assuage
the most poignant grief is unquestioned.
Who has not maTveled at the exaltation
crsated by the glorious strains OF the
national anthem? And who has not felt
the shivering delight produced by some
divine voice. the dread of the awakening
silence, and the Unsuitable craving for
that strain again?"
Ask the soldier what It was that caused
him TO forget the suffering Of the long
killing marches. and he will tell you OF
the music that caught him up Ike a
saving comrade and carried him along
OR ask the cavalryman what it was that
sent him hurting into the mouth OF
he'll" forgetful of il all. and he viii tel
you of the shrilIing charge that went
crashing into his brain and sent him
against the belching lines Of fire before
he had time to recall the specter fear.
No one who heard the combined bands
at the Worlds Fair-the musical organi-
cation of which S0uxa was the leader
viii ever forget the effect upon the aud
itors. Some were moved 10 sudden and
inexplicable laughter, while others found
themselves suffused in tears.
! II is nothing unusual for a singer who
feels her lines 20 leave a large as
semblage with scarcelyta dry eye. Thai
| these feelings are not evanescent; thai
| they leave a better and kindlier spirit
after them; that they close the door or
any bitterness of the past and create
/ a more cheerful outlook upon the future
! that the day has been frightened pereepti.
/ bly, by them and the night-the Ions
night-has lost its tinge Of sadness-whC
| can doubt.
Let me drink of the spirit Of that swee
sound,
More. o. more. I am thirsting yet.
Il Ioosens the serpent which care ha.
bound
| Upon my heart. to sti1e It;
/ The dissolvine strain. through every vein
Passes into my heart and brain"
! p. DEvINE
'arhat which makes the ear the hearts
best friend.
When. touch and sight and human
things doth fail,
The something where the dreams o
angels tend,
Which opens heavens gates and helri
assail,
The something which from depths divin'
| is stirred,
All unapproached by thought, OF touch
or word" EDNA BENNETT.
Music the hercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm;
Music can soften pain 10 ease,
And make despair and madness please
our joys below it can improve.
And antedate the bliss above.
Pope.
Music! o how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy SPELL
Why should feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul 81
well Moore.
Yea, music is the prophets art,
Among the gifts that God hath sent.
| One OF the most magnificent
-Longfellow.
Music religious heat inspires,
Il wakes the soul and lifts it high,
And wings ii with sublime desires,
And fits it TO bespeak the Deity.
Addison
Music is well said to be the speech o
angels. Carlyle.
God is its author. and not man; He lai
! The keynote of all harmonies; II
planned
All perfect combination, and He made
Us so that we could hear and under
stand. M G. Brainard.
The music in my heart I bore.
Long after it was heard no more.
Wordsworth
JOY has its voice-so has grief, Their
are eloquent tears: and deep sorrow
Melt into songs-in the fields which groy
green the sweet nightingale sings
Genius and love never meet but the spiri
of music is near them;
When the heart speaks, lend thine ear
lend thine ear, for its language
song. Charles Kisfaludy.
Music has charms TO sooth a savag
beast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak
I've read that things inanimate hav
moved,
And as with living souls, have been in
formed,
By magic numbers, and persuasive sound
-Congreve.
See deep enough. and you see musically
the heart Of nature being everywher
music if you can only reach it,
Carlyle
| Heavens thunders melt in music.
-Frere
There Is no feeling that does not fin
relief in music. Elliot.
OF all the arts, great music is the ar
To raise the soul above all earthly storms
Leland.
Music is the universal language of man
kind. -Longfellow
s. e. ADKINS.
How sweet is music when il dispel
the troubles of each day, and fills on
heart with a love for our fellow-man
What charms it has for us when ]