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Scan 314
The story of the violin, 1904
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 260. See the scan on archive.org.
1Story of the Violin
3and above the large, dark, heavy-breathing mass, will look like a moving, glittering sea of white. The orchestra—all budding débutantes! As you listen to the music gently rising, falling, rising,—through your half-closed eyelids and a mist of heat and haze and light—sound and movement melt together; childhood pictures crowd on you; forgotten dreams gain shape and life. You see the heavens open and descending and ascending angels clothed in white with fiddles, viols, 'cellis in their arms, radiant faces looking up in rapture to the source of light and goodness, drawing from it love and inspiration. And softly with them, rising, falling, rising, float the alleluias, amens, alleluias.
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