THE QUARTETTE ANTHEM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2829, 30 August 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE QUARTETTE ANTHEM.

Oh, yes; I heerd the anthem sung by that big church quartette ; My wife she raved about it but I kep' my own tnouth ?het; "No sweeter song," she sed, "is sunp by an angel's lip An' I sot still an' heerd her talk an' never raised a yip. They sang: "Wa Shall L!a Changed that's all; that's all, or party nigh ; "Wo shall be changed—we slial Ibe changed —we shall bi changed." Sszl ; " If you perpose all dav an' night jest them same words to sing, Why I should think a change would be a very.proper thing." Tha tenor sang" We shall be changed an' then struck in the base, Who sang "We shall, we shall be changed," from the bottom of his face. Tha alto and soprano then both tried their vocal range, An' both emphatically exrira-Bad tha cert;»inty of " change." The absence of idees was drowned in plenteousneas of voice. What strict economy nf words and extravagance of noise ! For they weie stingy of their words and generous of their strains, An' they wore spendthrifts of their lungs an' misers of their brains.

An' they call this mighty music ; 'taint fer me to say it's not; But I think ra'naic'j better w'en its slightly mixed with thought. I think yer lung-i give forth to men a more inspirin' strain If they first have made connection with the imagine of yer brain.

When Maria rocked our boy to sleep an' sung her baby song That quiet Sabbath evenin' with the shadders grnwin' long, ' The music of that baby song," sez I to her sez I, "It beats yer quartette anthem out, ail' knocks the thing sky-high I"