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T'H© MMM'RIC'MK BE® JOlO'MKMlf. 



HEAVBNLY ECHOES. 



Published through The American Press Association, by permission of the Author and her Publisher, 



Words by ALICE SWEET. Music by Mrs. L. KESSINGER. 



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1. Soft - ly, soft - ly at the midnight, Floating thro' the a - lent air, Mu-sic 



2. Fainter, faint-er grew the ech - oes. Dimmer grew the si - lent stars. Bin - er 



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min-glea with the moonlight, Bomeby zeph-yrs from a - far. 

 grew the liq - nid e - ther, Heav-en closed its gold-en bars ; 



Oh, how thrilling ! yet so faint-ly. That no 

 They had en-tered thro' the por - tals Of the 



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word the mu-sic bears, 'Tis the dis - tant ech - oes on - ly , An - gels sing - ing 'mong the stars : 

 jew - eled pearl-y dome. And the song was lost to mor - tals. For the an - gels were at home. 



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