The Power Of Music


One Sunday evening, five choristers were walking on the banks of a river;

after some time, being tired with walking, they sat down on the grass, and

began to sing an anthem. The field on which they sat was terminated at one

extremity by a wood, out of which, as they were singing, they observed a

hare to pass with great swiftness towards the place where they were

sitting, and to stop at about twenty yards' distance from them. She
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appeared highly delighted with the harmony of the music, often turning up

the side of her head to listen with more facility. As soon as the

harmonious sound was over, the hare returned slowly towards the wood; when

she had nearly reached the end of the field, the choristers began the same

piece again; at which the hare stopped, turned round, and came swiftly

back to about the same distance as before, where she seemed to listen with

rapture and delight, till they had finished the anthem, when she returned

again by a slow pace up the field, and entered the wood.



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