There is an old legend of a nun. She had gone into the thick
solitudes to listen to the forest voices. Seated in the shade
of a tree she heard a song till then new to her ears. It was
the song of the mystic bird. In that song she heard in music
all that man thinks and feels, all that he seeks and that he
fails to find. On strong wings that song lifted her soul to the
heights where it looks upon reality. There, with hands clasped,
the nun listened and listened, forgetting earth, sky, time and
even self-listened for long centuries, never tiring, but ever
finding in that voice a sweetness forever new.
Just such music, only infinitely sweeter, does the soul find that
listens amid its solitudes to the voice of God. (Text.)
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