by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871 - 1944)
The fountain song
Language: English
Lo, how like silver and like pearls The fountain flashes high and far, As if some lovely sprite of air and foam Were tossing jewels to a star. Lo, how like moonlit April rain The fountain sparkles gay and clear, As if a fairy hand unloosed the sky In balmy showers falling here. Lo, how the chiming fairy bells The tinkling crystal charms the night, As if the radiant fay were calling us To love's enchantment, love's delight.
Authorship:
- by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871 - 1944) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881 - 1946), "The fountain song", 1925, from the opera [selections] The Garden of Mystery [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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