...less frequently felt, or at any rate proclaimed, by prose-writers, than by preachers and poets : ' I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing ;' but there is no doubt that Harriet Martineau was impelled to write these tracts by a burning sense...

...the thrush fills the woodland with its vesper music, so does the poet's sorrow seek vent in his song. I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. He takes refuge in his rhymes, not to parade his affliction, but to ease his heart. It is natural also...

...secret from the latest moon ?' — " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : "And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note has changed,...

...Her secret from the latest moon ?' Behold, ye speak an idle thing: Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed....

...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,...

...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,...

...Her secret from the latest moon ? ' Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust : I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing : And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged ; And unto one her note is changed,...

...of regular education, they bear witness to an inborn faculty for song. She could say, with Tennyson, I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. She was never at school, and the only things in which she was ever regularly trained were French, English...

...with them. The same law-rules both, and clearly manifests itself as an instinct. Man, too, says — " I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing." The neglect of this simple and obvious truth is apparent in much that has been ingeniously and pleasantly...

...secret from the latest moon ? " Behold, ye speak an idle thing : Ye never knew the sacred dust ; 1 do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing. And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged : And unto one her note is changed,...