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"You sing with great expression," said Alice, "If you like these new
words that I have written to that old melody we can sing them together.
I have called it Loved Days. I think this is the one," she said, as she
passed him several small sheets pinned together.
"It is," said Quincy, as he took the paper and read it slowly.
As before, he said nothing when he had finished.
"Mr. Judge," said Alice, "would it be improper, from a judicial point of
view, for me to ask you which lines in the song you have just read
please you the most? But perhaps," said she, looking up at him, "none of
them are worthy of repetition."
"If you will consider for a moment," replied Quincy, "that I am off the
bench and am just sitting here quietly with you, I will say,
confidentially, that I am particularly well pleased with this;" and he
read a portion of the first stanza:
On Great Heaven's beauties,
Gaze the eyes I loved to see,
Done earth's weary duties,
Now, eternity.
"And," continued Quincy, "I think these lines from the second stanza are
fully equal to those I have just read.


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