Scan 27

Songs of my violin, 1901

18 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1INCANTATION.

3The night is come, and the Aladdin-hour

4When moonlight lends its nympholeptic power

5To help the conjuring of my Magic Bow;

6The Bow which, as I draw it, soft and slow,

7Across each string upon my violin,

8Can lure its spirits from their haunts within,

9And hold them to my wishings and my whim

10Until the night-worn moon is low and dim.

12So come, appear! Elusive music-sprites

13That gleam mysteriously in tone-delights,

14Like opal naiads of melodious waves!

15Yield me the secret that my yearning craves,

16Teach me the meaning of the glints that throng

17Like phosphorescence on the seas of song!

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