With Songs And Honors Sounding Loud.

Stanzas of this enduring hymn of Watts' have been as often recited as sung.

He sends His showers of blessing down To cheer the plains below; He makes the grass the mountains crown, And corn in valleys grow.

THE TUNE,

One of the chorals--if not the best--to claim partnership with this sacred classic, is John Cole's "Geneva," distinguished among the few fugue tunes which the singing world refuses to dismiss. There is a growing grandeur in the opening solo and its following duet as they climb the first tetra-chord, when the full harmony suddenly reveals the majesty of the music. The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason. One thinks of a bird-note making a waterfall listen.