LA PUISSANCE DU CHANT

Page 65. The gift to communicate beautiful conceptions in rhythmic words and sweet mélodies, has always enchanted the world, and has been a rich inheritance for the one so gifted.

" Fate," says Goethe, " has set the poet, like a god, high above ail that makes men restless. He watches the aimless confusion of passions, families, riches, the insoluble puzzle of delusions, he sympathizes with the sorrow and the joy of every individual fate."

Of the Power of Song, Bulwer Lytton says : " It contains the ideas which are the well-stream of so much of Schiller's noblest

inspiration: an intense and religions conviction of the lofty character and sublime ends of the poet."

" Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth hâve made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! "