It was so delightful to sway and swing and chant the rythmic lines over and over that almost she forgot she was being bad, and Martha had done the things she ought to have done, and the baby cried himself to sleep without her, and lay with the pathetic tear marks still on his cheeks, but her tired mother had only looked reproachfully at her and had not said one word.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
To abandon fixed rhythm, or meter, for the floating rhythm of the chant may not be an immediate solution of the problem.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
And, meantime, we are alive; we walk about; we, too, can swell the chorus which the Initiated chant in every century with the same fond confidence: "We alone enjoy the Holy Light."
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue