Scan 48

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 "A" STRING.

3I am the spirit of the soul-white "A";

4The spirit of whiteness,

5Its dullness and brightness,

6Its softness and lightness;

7The glamoured gleam of snows on Himalay,

8The downiness of clouds that dapple noon,

9The withered whiteness of a day-time moon,

10The sparkling whiteness of sea-foam and spray,

11The Summer whiteness of the Milky Way,

12The Winter whiteness which the snows immure,

13The unseen whiteness of a thought that's pure.

14In these delights

15Of varied whites

16My essence lives and holds its sway.

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, smooth-cadenced, flow,

23Hear what they sing!

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