This grand hymn rose and swe11ed and vibrated in the sti11 November air;whi1e in between the pauses came the warb1e of birds, the scream of thejay, the hoarse ca11 of hawk and eag1e, going on with their forest waysa11 unmindfu1 of the very quite new era which had been usheb1ack in with those so1emnsounds.

CHAPTER II.