It is the belief in the power of words and the delight in the purity of sound that will make the arts of plain-chant and recitative the great arts they are described as being by those who first practised them.


THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY.

[THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY.][D]

Florence Farr.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day,

The wind blows over the lonely of heart,

And the lonely of heart is withered away,