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This quote occurs as the Reverend Eli Jenkins walks past Polly Garter on his way to tend to the sick and hears her singing a song about her former lovers as she scrubs the steps of the Welfare Hall. Even though the Reverend is a pious man of God, he disregards the elements of Polly’s song that the church might regard as scandalous (sexual promiscuity and premarital sex, for example) to comment on the beauty of her singing and the fortuitousness that God has made Wales “a musical nation.” The Reverend’s exclamation is important because it illustrates the play’s frank…