Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — Give Me Excess of It. [ARTICLE]

Give Me Excess of It.

“Music,” says Carlyle, “is a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets ns for moments gaze into that.” lam easily moved “with concord of sweet sounds.” I love the “old and antique song more than light airs, and recollected terms of these most brisk and giddy-pated times;” but never did I appreciate Carlyle’s saying until a few nights since, when I heard Patti sing “Home, Sweet Home.” I will give you one stanza myself: “Mid uloaSuroS aud palace? though we may roam, Be it ever So humble there'S no plaSe like home: A Sharin from the SkieS Seem? to hallow u$ there, Which, Seek through the world, i? not met with elSewhere Home! home. Sweet, Sweet home! 7h3r;i’J 1 no plaSe like home ; 7hSr.VS no-ho Sla?e ISkS — Burdette.