So it would you if you could hear it." "No, it wouldn't," returned Diamond, stoutly.

"For they wouldn't hear the music of the far-away song; and if they did, it wouldn't do them any good.

You see you and I are not going to be drowned, and so we might enjoy it." "But you have never heard the psalm, and you don't know what it is like.
Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries." "But that won't do them any good--the people, I mean," persisted Diamond.
"It must.

It must," said North Wind, hurriedly.

"It wouldn't be the song it seems to be if it did not swallow up all their fear and pain too, and set them singing it themselves with the rest.