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out on the hushed air, and sounded in heaven, where they 

 kept silence to listen. 



The dying man turned his blue eyes lovingly toward 

 the window where his darling sat, and listened while she 

 sang ; and when she came again to the words which are 

 repeated so many times in the psalm, he joined with full 

 though low voice, and motioned to all who were around 

 him, and they joined also in the sublime chorus : 



"Oh that men to the Lord would give praise for his goodness then, 

 And for his works of wonder done unto the sons of men !" 



And then all hushed, and Jessie, nothing abashed, with 

 clear, bird-like voice went on, and sang of those that go 

 down to the sea in ships, and do business on the great 

 waters, nor thought of the ocean that was even then roll- 

 ing around her so tempestuously, on whose billows the old 

 man was tossed. All was silent while she sang. But her 

 grandfather seemed restless, and, manifestly, the heaven 

 of his hopes at times was shut out from his vision. But 

 when at length the child sang of the calm, the quiet, and 

 stillness which the voice of God commanded, and how 

 finally he brings them who are troubled unto rest, them 

 who are tempest-tossed unto their desired haven, the old 

 man grew quiet, his face assumed the smile again, his 

 lip grew serenely calm, his eye lustrous, but with the soft 

 lustre of a star on a clear night in the mountain country, 

 and again, but now with loud, distinct voice, full of cheer, 

 he joined the chorus, 



" Oh that men to the Lord would give praise for his goodness then !"' 



It were vain with human words to attempt a description 

 of the passage from darkness to light, the breaking in on 

 the scenes of earth of that all-holy radiance, whereof the 



