I
Come, my gleeman, with your melody,
Angel melody!
Weave from starlight songs of tenderness,
Songs of tenderness!
Down beneath the curv?d jasper moon,
Down beneath the sea-green ocean croon,
Drop, drop, drop your azure melody,
Azure melody!
II
From the sea there sparkles melody,
Coral melody!
Arthur’s maidens stop and listen long,
Stop and listen long!
Fifty fathoms down a minstrel lies,
Fifty fathoms down they hear his cries;
“Jesu!” sing they, “‘Tis a crystal melody,
Crystal melody?”
III
And the lily croons a melody,
Golden melody!
O’er the gleeman whom she loved and lost,
Ay, she loved and lost!
Fifty breakers join the ocean choir,
Fifty fairies string the minstrel’s lyre;
All the world is like a living melody,
Living melody!
Fenton Johnson
(Fenton Johnson)
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