Excerpt from Overtones: A Book of Verse
The first two poems of this little volume appeared a quarter of a century ago in Harper"s Monthly Magazine. Other verses have already been published in various periodicals.
The Boston Hymns were written to be sung with organ accompaniment at the opening devotional service of the Boston Monday Lectures, and will be recalled by many among the great audiences that filled Park Street Church and Tremont Temple on these occasions during more than twenty years.
Though aware that the Hymns were not always faultless in technique, the author desired to give expression in them to the fundamental truths of our most holy faith, to him most precious.
While poetry was not the chief chord struck on his harp of life, great spiritual truths seemed to him to find their best utterance in verse. Keenly sensitive to beauty in the natural as in the spiritual world, he ever listened joyfully to this vibrating overtone, which penetrated his life, as it gives name to this book.
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