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Scan 14
Songs of my violin, 1901
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1PREFACE.
3There is a scientific relation between the vibrations of color and sound, but the use that is made of this relationship in the following "Songs" is purely fanciful and arbitrary. In fixing colors to the strings of a violin I have merely chosen those which the tone-quality of each string suggested to me.
5The "Prelude" to the Songs of my Violin appeared originally under the title of "The Violin" in an illustrated number of The Outlook for Easter, 1899. I am indebted to the courtesy of the editors of The Outlook for permission to reprint it here, along with the following sonnets which have also appeared in that magazine: "Memory," "Pain," "Indian Summer," "Buried Thoughts."
7Through the kindness of Godey's Magazine I am allowed to reprint "Millbrook Valley" and "Shooting Stars," and through the courtesy of Current Literature, "To a Pair of Blue Eyes."
9Alfred L. Donaldson.
11Saranac Lake, N. Y.
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