A Song of Summer Days

"Dulcima"
- Johnny Douglas Strings (1991 compilation)

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A Song of Summer Days
Virna Sheard, 1913

As pearls slip off a silken string and fall into the sea,
These rounded summer days fall back into eternity.

Into the deep from whence they came; into the mystery—
At set of sun each one slips back as pearls into the sea.

They are so sweet—so warm and sweet—Love fain would hold them
fast:
He weeps when through his finger tips they slip away at last.