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THE BRITISH MINSTREL; AND
Thrilling now with joyous fire,
Richly wild the music floats.
So I love the melting strain,
I would turn from thrones of kings
To hear the minstrel's hand unchain
The mighty magic of the strings.
Where's the bliss to rival this,
The voice of song in beauty's bowers?
Oh, give to me sweet melody,
1 will crowu the harp with flowers.
^Vt'eJily Dispatch,
THE TE DEUM OF HASSE.
The incomparable Te Deum of the immortal
Hasse, had the following singular origin: — He had
been commissioned by king Augustus III. to com-
pose a new Te Deuin, but having been for some
time very ill, he was not disposed to study, and was
unable to please himself. Meantime, the day when
it was to be delivered was near at hand : almost
despairing of success, he took a walk, on a fine
Sunday morning, in the Royal Park. A lusty pea-
sant from Gruna, who was going to take the sacra-
ment at a neighbouring church, overtook him near
the palace, addressed him cordially, and kept close
to him, notwithstanding the cool answers he received.
Vexed at being thus interrupted in his meditations,
he was about to turn into a side path, when sud-
denly a ray of invention was kindled in his soul,
and the leading idea of the Te Deum flashed across
his mind. Not to lose it, he impetuously desires
the peasant to stand still, runs into the gardener's
lodge for a piece of chalk, and is about to draw a
stave across the broad shoulders of tlie peasant,
when the latter, already amazed at the command
to stand still, grew quite angry at the chalk marks
on his Sundaycoat, and supposing Hasse to be mad,
runs full speed towards the city, followed by Hasse,
chalk in hand; who luckily catches him, and begs
him for heaven's sake to stop, writes his leading
theme upon the black coat, and drives its owner
before him, (humming the notes as he goes along,)
to the park-gate, where he obtains pen, ink, and
paper, and copies the whole. With this treasure
Hasse hastened home, and the principal parts of
the Te Deiim were completed. On the following
day he went to Gruna, carrying a present of a dozen
of wine for the obliging peasant, whose black coat
had been of such essential service to him. Every
one knows the result of its (jcrformance. — 0.tbcrnj's
Dramatic Biuyrayht/.
Prince Hoare.
Andante.
THE STAR OF EVE.
FROM THE MUSICAL FARCE OF ' LOCK AND KEY.'
Shield.
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