...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by a burning sense...

...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It is natural also...

...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing...never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because 1 must. And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have...

...it was; for every great poet may, and docs, truthfully echo in his heart the lines from In Memoriam: I do but sing because I must. And pipe but as the linnets sing. And just as singing was natural to Burns, to many it is natural to appreciate without being able to demonstrate....

...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because...

...to swoon, When conscience reaches forth her arms, To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' — " Behold, ye speak an...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note has changed,...

...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing:...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed. Because...

...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ?' • Behold, ye speak an idle...never knew the sacred dust: I do but sing because 1 must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note ¡- gay, For now her little ones have...

...and to swoon, When science reaches forth her arms To feel from world to world, and charms Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle...because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed, Because...

...of regular education, they bear witness to an inborn faculty for song. She could say, with Tennyson, I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. She was never at school, and the only things in which she was ever regularly trained were French, English...