Scan 30

Songs of my violin, 1901

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

1SPIRIT OF THE "G" STRING.

3I am the spirit of the silver "G":

4I am silvered sadness,

5I am moonlit gladness,

6I am that fine madness

7Of reverence half, and half of ecstasy,

8Distilled in moonlight of the month of June

9And set to music by the watery rune

10Of every stream that knows a little tune,

11Of every ripple lisping to the moon,

12Of all the fluent sounds that vaguely croon

13Upon the bosom of night's harmony.

14I may be seen

15In every sheen

16That shimmers in moon-scenery.

17I dwell within

18The violin,

19A sprite that serves the Magic Bow,

20At whose caress I wake and glow;

21So draw it deftly o'er the string

22And, as the notes slow-cadenced flow,

23Hear what they sing.

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