It was all done in a flash, and I marvel that I tell its mental processes as if they were a song sung in long-metre time.
You might as well try to sing a long-metre hymn to "Fisher's Hornpipe," as to undertake to dance to that polka.
Let some one with a strong voice give out the long-metre doxology, and the whole world "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow."
The music of the long-metre doxology was floating through the open windows.
It was the old tune which for many years had closed the session of the State Board, the long-metre doxology.