The diamond necklace played the pawn


Hand in hand some drummed along, oh

To a handsome man and baton





A blind class aristocracy

Back through the opera glass you see


The pit and the pendulum drawn




Columnated ruins domino





Hung velvet overtaken me

Dim chandelier awaken me


To a song dissolved in the dawn




The music hall a costly bow


The music all is lost for now


To a muted trumpeter swan




Columnated ruins domino


Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

Are you sleeping, brother John?





Dove nested towers the hour was

Strike the street quicksilver moon


Carriage across the fog


Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune

The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne





The glass was raised, the fired grows

The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting


While at port adieu or die


A choke of grief, heart hardened I

Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry





Surf's up, aboard a tidal wave

Come about hard and join


The young and often spring you gave


I heard the word, wonderful thing

A children's song

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