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50 way through without the least exception.) The commencement was:—



then later I cannot help it. It drives me beside myself to hear the holiest and loveliest of words sung in such a casual, humdrum style. They say it is plain song; it is Gregorian, that makes no difference. If, indeed, in those times men had no deeper feelings or no finer resources, still we are in no such case, and truly there