Scan 38

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 "D" STRING.

3I am the spirit of the ruby "D,"

4The very quintessence

5And light efflorescence

6Of every rubescence

7Whose glow incarnadines the land or sea.

8I am the red that robes the card'nal cloud

9That near the Monarch Sun floats crimson-proud.

10I tinge the gossamer of polar nights,

11And winnow with the fitful boreal lights.

12I am the essence that the poppies keep

13To damask Eastern dreams in opium-sleep.

14In every red

15I live and shed

16My soul-tint like an ecstasy.

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, quick-cadenced, flow,

23Hear what they sing.

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