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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Dream-wings" is a graceful fantasy that fittingly presents the delicate sentiment of Coleridge' lyrics. The setting of Heine's "Fir-tree" is entirely worthy to stand high among the numerous settings of this lyric. Smith gets the air of desolation of the bleak home of the fir-tree by a cold scale of harmony, and a bold simplicity of accompaniment.
Over it sea-gulls floated on dream-wings. While from some remote Down village, church bells swung out the old song Come to Christ, Come to Christ, Come, dear children, come to Christ. The boy, lying on the bloody deck, his feet cushioned on a dead man, listened with closed eyes to the old call.
It was a painful task that he imposed, but his wishes ruled her; and she tried to steady her voice as she sang, in a very low, faltering tone, the beautiful, but melancholy ballad. Tears rolled over her face as she chanted the verses; and when she concluded, he repeated very faintly: "Sweetly it rests, and on dream-wings flies, To play with the angels in paradise!"
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