Flight of a Song
No song so sweet as that you sang last night, Enriched and perfumed vith the breath of flowers Baptised with dew... .. W"ind-wafted strains of melody took flight, Their sweetness grew, And moonbeams nestling ‘mid the leafy bowers Caressed the harmony. Then higher, higher, rose that bland refrain, The wind sighed suddenly in sympathy, Rearing the. song on, on, from foam to foam Of suddenly enriffled sca. Far sped tlie sweet nocturnal melody, Mingling with sounds of distant tumbling waves... The breese to open lattice bore each strain Of ballad, blended sweetly with a throng Of mystic beauties in the moonlit glow Amid the quietitde of gloam — I sat enraptured .. 0... . Then came a@ till, the zephyr stilled .... and.lo!
1 ne evanesence of ( song.
V.S.
J.
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 38, 1 April 1932, Unnumbered Page
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129Flight of a Song Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 38, 1 April 1932, Unnumbered Page
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