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Excerpt from The Flower of England's Face: Sketches of English Travel
Towards morning Chester went to bed, and we fell asleep, only to be awakened at dawn by the chiming of the cathedral bells, almost in front of our windows. It was worth waking for, - to lie there in a half dream, and hear the liquid music soar, and swell, and die away, at last, in strains too sweet for earth. In the afternoon there was a Jubilee service for the children, for which tickets were kindly sent us. Chester is one of the smaller cathedrals yet on that occa sion, though only the south transept was used, it was said that seven thousand chil dren and many grown people were seated in its wide spaces. Perhaps it should be stated that this transept is exceptionally large - nearly as large as the nave itself -and is known as the church of St. Oswald. The children did most of the singing, led by the trained choir and the great organ; and when the full chorus of fresh young voices rolled out grandly in the hymn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
