“The Hymn’
: Suddenly life in the organ stirs. = : From out of the huge green pipes £ : soft melody pours with full-throat- = = ed ease. So beautiful is it that the = = boy in the front pew forgets to sit = | up straight. His shoulders droop, j : his chin goes up. and his eyes run = = up and down the line of pipes, tty- : = ing to trace the melody. Each note = z falls clear and strong. Music fills : = the church. It is as if a great wind = | swept over the people. Then slow- | : ly it dies, until only the poignant 1 = treble notes are left;. For a little i i they bang exquisitely on the air. j 5 Then they too 4 die like a breeze. 5 : The pipes seem to quiver as the = = hymn passes from their lips. Dark- = = ness, save for where one light j = gleams, fills the church, and the or- j i ganist, where his hair shines up = | aloft, fingers his keys. He is sitting | : there alone and he does not see.— : = Santorin (16), Lower Hutt. =
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 25
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174“The Hymn’ Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 25
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