L'ÎLE DÉSERTE ENCHANTÉE

A 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 op'ra 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 trumperter 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 lamplight cellar tune The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne The glass was raised the fired rose The fullness of the wine the dim last toasting While at port adieu or die A choke of grief hard 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.