Florence Churchill Casebeer - I. The Musician - Dedicated to Madame E. Schuman-Heink lyrics

Music! When through my heart, in youth's bright morn Your flow began to surge, emotions known To that glad time found overflow in tone, You were confessional! Then overborn In tumultuous tests, with rushing wind and storm, The shell of life was hither, thither blown. Though only echoes lingered--old forms had flown-- Still melody my searching hours transform. I need not seek beyond the night bird's song, Soaring in melody, above the tree; And now a human voice in ethereal praise, Answers from deep to deep, until we long To merge our own in reneed minstrelsy, And free all aching hearts for singing days.