y" (afterwards Mrs. J.
Worthington Bliss). The arrangement of air, duo and quartet is very
impressive[20].

[Footnote 20: _Methodist Hymnal_, No. 743.]

"Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill:
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still."
"Too late! too late! ye cannot enter now!"

"No light! so late! and dark and chill the night--
O let us in that we may find the light!"
"Too late! too late! ye cannot enter now!"

* * * * *

"Have we not heard the Bridegroom is so sweet?
O let us in that we may kiss his feet!"
"No, No--! too late! ye cannot enter now!"

The words are found in "Queen Guinevere," a canto of the "Idyls of the
King."

"OH, GALILEE, SWEET GALILEE."

This is the chorus of a charming poem of three stanzas that shaped
itself in the mind of Mr. Robert Morris while sitting over the ruins on
the traditional site of Capernaum by the Lake of Genneseret.

Each cooing dove, each sighing bough,
That makes the eve so blest to me,
Has something far diviner now,
It bears me back to Galilee.

CHORUS
Oh, Galilee, sweet Galilee,
Where Jesus loved so much to be;
Oh, Galilee, blue Galilee,
Come sing thy song again to me.

Robert Morris, LL.D., born Aug. 31, 1818, was a scholar, and an expert
in certain scientific subjects, and wrote works on numismatics and the
"Poetry of Free Masonry." Commissioned to Palestine in 1868 on historic
and archaeological service for the United Order, he explored the scenes
of ancient Jewish and Christian life and event in the Holy Land, and
being a religious man, followed the Saviour's earthly footsteps with a
reverent zeal that left its inspiration with him while he lived. He died
in the year 1888, but his Christian ballad secured him a lasting place
in every devout memory.

_THE TUNE._

The author wrote out his hymn in 1874 and sent it to his friend, the
musician, Mr. Horatio R. Palmer,[21] and the latter learned it by heart,
and carried it with him in his musings "till it floated out in the
melody you know," (to use his own words.)

[Footnote 21: See page 311.]

CHAPTER VII.

OLD REVIVAL HYMNS.

The sober churches of the "Old Thirteen" states and of their successors
far into the nineteenth century, sustained evening prayer-meetings more
or less commonly, but necessity made them in most cases "cottage
meetings" appointed on Sunda