The Requiem of the Old Gentleman

Laurie resolved to embalm his love sorrow an music, and to compose a requiem which should harrow up joe's soul and melt the heart of every hearer. But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the requiem was beyond him just at present. Thanks to this inspiration, he got on mingly for a time, but gradually the work lost its charm, and he forgot to compose. As became a distracted composer, when he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most oblig