THE PRIMARY MUSIC CLASS 



The Chorus of the Forest 



SINCE the beginning the forest has been 

 singing its song, but few there are who 

 have cared to learn eitlier the words or the Forest 

 melod}'. Its chorus differs from that of any other Notes 

 part of the music of nature, and the price that 

 must be paid to learn it is higher. The forest is 

 of such gloomy and forbidding aspect that inti- 

 mate acquaintance is required in order to learn 

 to love it truly. So only a few peculiar souls, 

 caring for solitude and far places, and oblivious 

 to bodily discomfort, have answered this wildest 

 of calls, and gone to the great song carnival 

 among the trees. 



The forest always lias ])een compared rightly 

 with a place of worship. Its mighty trees, some- 

 times apj^earing as if set in aisles, resemble large 

 pillars, and the canopy formed by their over- 

 arching branches provides the subdued light con- 

 ducive to worship. The dank, pungent air arises 



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