The Music Of The Rest

In the grand oratorios of life God writes us unexpected rests ! These break the rush, the strain, the storm, the strife, And are our surely needful tests ! How these are kept, not reaching for the next, Nor cllnging to the former strain, In perfect waitlng, listening for the text, To make the M aster' s meaning plain, Pioves, or di&proves, our individual skill. Some high, some low, some intermedíate, sicg ; Each voice is needful in its part, Though one, in solo, rise on peerless wing,- Lost in the chorus one ! An art Divinely wise, brings, here and there, a rest '. And he - I'd teil it o'er and o'er - Sings best who, losing self, interpreta best, In notes, or rests throughout the score, The Master's grand, eternal, loving will !