Excerpt from The Esperance Morris Book, Vol. 1
T is a great pleasure for one who is not musical, and has been in his time much harassed by scholarly compositions, to attend a concert and find that every song has melody, and simplicity, and charm. Such was my experience a few nights ago, when I listened, in a kind of trance, to some score of old English songs sung by a little company of sweet voices from a girls' club. If all music were like this, if all singing were like this, I said, I would lose my heart to sound; I would haunt concert rooms with the assiduity with which I now avoid them.
The contemplation of the most satisfying work of art, in whatever medium - the recognition of perfection always carries with it, with me, a smarting of the eyes.
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