Take your violin and play Songs that charm the years away—Those they sang in olden times Set to wistful, haunting rhymes; Play the magic song of June Fashioned but for Love's delight, Tender, plaintive as a tune Heard beneath the moonbeams white, Take your violin and play, Charm the twilight hours away; Send forth sorrow from the earth, Lend me Love and lend me Mirth, Play the song of trees again—April songs when life was gay, Sunlight, piercing clouds of rain—Take your violin and play.
Dive away the cold and gloom, ced the tone from ne rom, Play a song of sweet July—Sue tat ing ly the ky: All the tunes you played of old Binea tom hand ake of las Straight from Autumn's store of gold—"Those they sang when Troy was new.
Take your violin and. play Songs that charm the years away.
Winifred Tasker, in "Bookman".
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.