Good morning, all! I've got laundry this morning and another trip to a copier to enlarge another Victor Herbert manuscript to decipher some lyrics.
I still haven't figured out the mystery word from yesterday, and given the amount of original lyrics I see on this board, I'm still hoping one of our creative geniuses will figure out the word. I'm stymied. It's a 2-syllable word with the accent on the first syllable. Here's the complete first verse:
When the sun in golden splendor
Sinks behind the distant hills,
Then a ____________ sweetly tender
All my inward beng thrills;
With the breath of springtime laden
Mirrored in the twilight air,
There appears a beauteous maiden
Tall of form, divinely fair.
Herbert's manuscript does not give a writer credit, so I have no idea what hack provided this; I looked up the first line on Google, hoping it might be in a collection of fourth-rate Victorian poetry, but no such luck! Two of the songs we're recording have texts by Swinburne, and there are a large number of songs sety to German poetry. Then there are songs with this drivel.
