Excerpt from Fragments of Time: Gathered and Strung
"Music hath Charms" is an old truism with which we have all been familiar, even from our childhood, and the same proverb may also be used with reference to poetry; indeed (to use a figurative term) the one is the handmaid of the other. Who has not been charmed by the sweet songs and beautiful stanzas of our great master poets? Aye, and some of our minor poets too, especially when charged with a spell which ever and anon lifts us, as it were, out of our meagre selves, and for a while carries the soul upward, onward, and heavenward, far away from the rush, toil, and din of this busy working-day world, to its coveted haven of rest. Many and various are the methods employed by our Creator in bringing His creatures to a knowledge of Himself, and His will concerning the children of men. To this end poetry has its allotted work, and will sometimes reach the heart where prose will fail. Moreover, we are each in a degree our brother"s keeper, and may be coworkers with God, in whose name and by whose injunction we sow beside all waters, leaving the result to Him who is able to use our feeble efforts for the good of mankind, and the consummation of His eternal purpose, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth, ever world without end.
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