Paganini
He shambled awkward on the stage, tho while Across the waiting audience swept a smile. With clumsy touch, when first he drew the bow, He snapped a string. The audience tittered low. Another stroke I Ofif flies another string ! With laughter now the circling galleries ring. Once more 1 The third string breaks its quivering strands. And hisses gieet the player as he stands. He stands— the while his genius unbereft Is calm— one string and Paganini left. He plays. The one string's daring notes uprise Against that slorm as it they sought the skies
A silence falls ; then awe ; the people bow And they who erst had hissed are weeping now. And when the last note, trembling, died away Some bhouted " Bravo !" some had learned to pray.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129Paganini Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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