WOOD NOTES WILD. 3 



" The songs of Nature never cease, 

 Her players sue not for release. 

 In nearer fields, on hills afar, 

 Attendant her musicians are : 

 From water brook or forest tree, 

 For aye comes gentle melody, 

 The very air is music blent — 

 An universal instrument." 



Even inanimate things have their music. Listen to 

 the water dropping from a faucet into a bucket partially- 

 filled :— 



f ^' g^crf^ g ^Lf r^-^=^cjT"rT 



f^=f=^=u^-f-^ ap p rj=-f f ap rr 



I have been delighted with the music of a door as it 

 swung lazily on its hinges, giving out charming tones 

 resembling those of a bugle in the distance, forming 

 pleasing melodic strains, interwoven with graceful slides 



