Mortals may sing it here below,
The angels sing it above;
For all of heaven that earth can know
Is set to the Song of Love,
Love, love, love, is set to the Song of Love.
Then bid the trumpet and drum be still,
And battle flags idly float;
Better by far that men should sing
The Song of a Single Note.
Love, love, love, the Song of a Single Note.
Transcriber's Notes:
Some of the illustrations have been moved so that they correspond to the text and do not break up paragraphs. The biggest change was the movement of the illustration "Maria lay dressed upon her bed" from facing page 100 to page 305, near the corresponding text. Because of these changes, the page numbers of the illustrations no longer match the page numbers in the List of Illustrations.
Throughout the book, the name of one of the characters was "DuBois", but four times the name was given as "Du Bois". In each of those four, instances, "Du Bois" was replaced with "DuBois". Likewise, another character was sometimes named "André" and sometimes named "Andre". In this case, "Andre" was replaced with "André".
Thoughout the book, quotation mark usage is different than current usage. Quotation mark usage was "corrected" only where the printed usage would be confusing to the reader. In some cases a single set of quotation marks was used for multiple paragraphs, in those caes the quotation marks were not changed.
Throughout the dialogues, there were words and punctuation used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words and punctuation were retained as-is.
In the Contents, a period was placed after "V".
On page 2, a period was placed after "easily go further".