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First Line: Have you heard the song of the violin
Last Line: Have you heard the song of the violin?
Subject(s): Violins


Have you heard the song of the violin,
As it cries from the depths of its soul! --
Of love and life, of hate and scorn,
Of laughter and weeping -- the former forced,
The last coming naturally, it would seem --
From the mind, the heart, and the soul of those
The music they hear, but cannot catch
In its flight through thought; it flees away
Ere the brain can record, the hand take pen
To write down the beauty heard but once.
The joys of life fly, the sorrows remain;
The smiles recede, the tears return
With lonely days and bitter nights.
Yet -- forgetfulness comes ere madness, -- perhaps.
Have you heard the song of the violin?





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