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Music and Immortality

We walked Madeira's flowery scented shore,
For lilies and geraniums grew there,
And roses breathed their fragrance on the air,
Great sea cliffs soared a thousand feet or more,
And mountain peaks the landscape towered o'er;
While glorious vistas charmed us everywhere,
O happy day, we left behind all care,
With all this beauty at our very door.
But when a strain of music reached our ears,
Our spirits rose as boundless as the sea,
And we were lifted up beyond all fears,
Lost in the Infinite, divinely free,
As song made us forget the passing years,
And thrilled the soul with immortality.