Excerpt from Franklin Square Song Collection, Vol. 5: Two Hundred Favorite Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes, Nursery and Fireside Gladness can scarcely be a solitary thing; the very life of praise seems choral; it is more than one bounded heart can utter. Its finest expressions are those that, in the Psalms and some ancient canticles, call on Nature, even that which is not conscious and animate, to swell the harmony: O ye Showers and Dew, praise ye the Lord! Once, even in Music, I was content with melody; a tune, with its sweetness, like that of a tinkling rill, was enough to gladden me now my heart asks for a deeper spell. Surely when one has once entered into the blissful secrets of harmony, the note seems to suggest the chord, to ask to be built up within ih - Two Friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.