. Programme . e of tawny glare. Shot midnight lightnings lurid ray. Hackenberg scouted the idea of worship, and hunted with hisnew and swarthy acquaintance across the field of husbandman,oer moss and moor; he heeded not the cries of the widow and theorphan; he chased the stag into the holy chapel of a hermit. Sud-denly, after he had blasphemed against God, there was an awfulsilence. In vain he tried to wind his horn; there was no bayingof his hounds; and a voice thundered from a cloud: The measureof thy cup is full; be chased forever through the wood. Misbegottenhounds of hell uprose from the
. Programme . e of tawny glare. Shot midnight lightnings lurid ray. Hackenberg scouted the idea of worship, and hunted with hisnew and swarthy acquaintance across the field of husbandman,oer moss and moor; he heeded not the cries of the widow and theorphan; he chased the stag into the holy chapel of a hermit. Sud-denly, after he had blasphemed against God, there was an awfulsilence. In vain he tried to wind his horn; there was no bayingof his hounds; and a voice thundered from a cloud: The measureof thy cup is full; be chased forever through the wood. Misbegottenhounds of hell uprose from the bowels of the earth. What ghastly Huntsman next arose. Well may I guess, but dare not tell;His eye like midnight lightning glows. His steed the swarthy hue of hell. The Wildgrave flies oer bush and thorn. With many a shriek of helpless wo;Behind him hound, and horse, and horn. And Hark away, and holla, ho! The Boston Music Ga []26 West Street ^tephone Beach 1561 \e most convenientmusic store in toivm. complete stock of ALL the latest music 24 Some folk-lorists go back to Orion and claim that he was theoriginal Wild Hunter, the Wuotan of Greece, which reminds usthat John Phcenix, in his lectures on astronomy, insisted that thebeautiful constellation Orion takes its name from the founder ofthe celebrated Irish family of ORyan. The northern Odin, whosetrue name was Sigge, persuaded his followers that he had the airand tempests under his control; that he could run over the worldin the twinkling of an eye. Wuotan, the restless, the vehement,was the first Wild Huntsman known to the Germans. He rode ina wagon on the howling wind. In Thuringia, Hesse, Franconia,Swabia, the wild chase was ^^Das loilthende Heer. The devil wasaccompanied in the mad flight by this giant. In Westphalia the hero was known as Hackelbarend, and forhunting on Sundays he was banished to the air, wherein he musthunt day and night, just as the man in the moon is imprisonedthere for gathering sticks on Su
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