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i ’low it's sorter solemn-like
To hear the organ pealin’ ;
Tt kinder makes yer blood run cold,
An1 fills ye full o’ feeling.
But, somehow, it don't tcch the spot—
Mow, mind ye, I ain’t slingio'
Ko slurs— ez that bass viol did
When SamVel led the ringin',

I tell yc wliat, when he struck yp
The tune, all1 sister 1 I.anner
Putin her purty treble— eh?
That, what you’d call sopranner—■
Why, all the choir, with might an1 main,
Set to, an' seemed a-flingin'
Their hull souls out with ev’ry note,
When SamVel led the ringin'.

An’, land alive, the way they'd race
Through grand old “ Coronation! 11
Each voice a chasm’ t’other round,
It jes’ beat all creation !
I alius thought it must 'a' set
The bells o’ heaven a ringin'
To hear us “ Crown I It in Lord of All,"
When Sam1 we \ led the sin gin’.

Folks didn’t sing for money then !
They sung because 'twas in 'em
A ir must come out. I i.iseter feel—-
If Parson couldn*1 win ’em
With preachin' mV with prayin’ an'
i-lis everlaslin’ dingin’—
That choir’d fetch sinners to the fold,
When Sam1 we 1 led Hie 'dingin’.