This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...unlike the thrilling notes Thy touch evokes, --so sweet at time one deems An angel's voice around then softly floats. Though mine may perfect be technically It something lacks that baffles all my skill, --Some subtle power, --passion--intensity All tones I try--yet it eludes me still. 7 If thou but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...unlike the thrilling notes Thy touch evokes, --so sweet at time one deems An angel's voice around then softly floats. Though mine may perfect be technically It something lacks that baffles all my skill, --Some subtle power, --passion--intensity All tones I try--yet it eludes me still. 7 If thou but press the keys thy hands beneath With noonday fervor doth the music glow The fragrance of fresh flowers around then breathe And strains from harps Eolian seem to blow, And every changing cadence thrills my heart Expression giving to some mood of mine, Moods of which joy and sadness are a part--And each with power that seems almost divine. 8 Earth seems to fade away, --and as the beams Of dawn tints all with its own beauteous sheen Life's stream, from music's charms, more brightly gleams, Each day is fairer, each hour more serene. Oh much I fear that I may never gain Such power as thine, --it dwells from me as far And seems and high and hopeless to attain As if it were some distant shining star. How blest that hour! of all my life most fair When thy sweet music first entranced my soul As some seraphic being of the air With tuneful voice it round me softly stole, Uplifting fancy till it soared to spheres Quivering with strange new life, --a life of joy Where brighter, fairer, lovelier, all appears Yielding a pleasure keen, without alloy. 10 If but a simple air is by thee played The music flows a gushing, living stream. When I to play the same notes have essayed How cold and lifeless did the numbers seem. 'Tis ever thus--and vainly do I try To give the life thy sweet impassioned strain So purely breathes. Thy secret tell, that I Unto such marvelous power as thine attain. What answer could I make? All the drear past Came back to me--A childhood of dark...
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