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The Master's Violin, 1905
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1sang through Summer silences. All at once there was a pause, then, sonorous, deep, and splendid, came another harmony, which in impassioned beauty voiced the ministry of pain.
3As before, Lynn saw chiefly the technique. Never for a moment did he forget the instrument. Iris was trembling, for she well knew those high and lonely places of the spirit, within the borders of Gethsemane.
5The Master put down the violin and sighed. "Come," faltered Iris, "it is late and we must go."
7He did not hear, and it was Fräulein Fredrika who went to the door with them. "Franz is thinking," she whispered. "He is often like that. He will be most sorry when he learns that you have gone."
9"This way," said Iris, when they reached the street. They went to the brow of the cliff and looked once more across the shadowed valley to the luminous ranges of the everlasting hills. She turned away at last, thrilled to the depths of her soul. "Come," she whispered, "we must go back."
11They walked softly, as though they feared to disturb someone in the little house, but
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