Scan 56

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 "E" STRING.

3I am the spirit of the golden "E";

4I am sunlight glinting,

5I am amber tinting,

6And the yellow dinting

7Of every golden flower on the lea.

8I am the glow of the eternal star.

9I gild the streaking of the comet's scar

10When, darting through the clear, cool night, it spills

11Its trail to earth in golden daffodils.

12I am the Sun's refulgence when it lies,

13The oriflamme of noon, in near, blue skies;

14And in each beam

15I flash and gleam

16In tones of golden minstrelsy.

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 joy-cadenced flow,

23Hear what they sing!

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