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266 MUSIC [CHAP. XVIn
· eastwards down the Old Brompton Road. whistling one
of the themes of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.
Lately, having time to spare in York, I was standing outside
the west front of the Cathedral while afternoon service
was going on, when a townsman, an artisan in appearance,
asked me why I didn't go inside. I told him they objected
to sightseers during Divine Service. " Oh, but there's:
an anthem of Byrd's just going to be sung, and I know
the verger, who will let us in at the side-door here. Come
along." He whipped out a printed programme of the
services with the anthem-words in full ; and sure enough
from the ambulatorium (if I am right) we beard an ex·
quisite fragment of the great master.
There was a man with a .gift for fellowship I
I am convinced, after seeing the restored church of
Glandford, near Cley-on-Sea, Norfolk, that in every village ·
of 150 souls or more there may be found a few boys with
a talent for designing, and others for carving wood or
stone ; for craftsmanship, in short, such as must have
been common in the fifteenth century.
We have woefully neglected both talents; but Nature
is giving us all the time an opportunity as rich as ever.