Whom the Gods Destroyed

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Josephine Daskam Bacon. Whom the Gods Destroyed

Whom the Gods Destroyed

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A WIND FLOWER

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WHEN PIPPA PASSED

THE BACKSLIDING OF HARRIET BLAKE

A BAYARD OF BROADWAY

A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE BOOKS

THE MAID OF THE MILL

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THE TWILIGHT GUESTS

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Josephine Daskam Bacon

Published by Good Press, 2022

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But the man at the piano gave a little chuckle of satisfaction, and ran his hands up and down the keys in a delirium of scales and arpeggios. Then he hit heavily a deep, low note. It was like a great, bass trumpet. A crashing chord: and then the love-song of Germany and musicians caught me up to heaven, or wherever people go who love that tune—perhaps it is to Germany—and I heard a great, magnificent man singing in a great, magnificent baritone, the song that won Clara Schumann's heart.

Schubert sang sweetly, wonderfully. I cry like a baby when one sings the Serenade even fairly well. And dear Franz Abt has made most loving melodies. But they were musicians singing, this was a man. "Du meine Liebe, du!"—that was no piano; it was a voice. And yet no human voice could be at once so limpid and so rich, so thrilling and so clear. And now it crashed out in chords—heavy, broken harmony. All the rapture of possession, the very absolute of human joy were there—but these are words, and that was love and music.

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