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Title
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The deaf and dumb girl's dream: a pathetic ballad
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Description
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Sheet music. This musical score for piano and voice with illustrated cover claims inspiration from a young girl’s dream about an angel “healing” her deafness.
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For voice and piano.
T.p. illustration: tinted lithograph of a girl in bed with 2 hovering angels / "J.H. Bufford's Lith., Boston."
"Sung with great approbation by Adele of the Orphean Family, and dedicated as a mark of esteem to Miss Fanny Hill Skinner of Norfolk, Va."
The inspiratino for the song is explained at length on verso of t.p.
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Format
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Music, Musical Score
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Language
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English
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Extent
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1 score (9 p.) : col. ill. ; 35 cm.
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Identifier
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OCLC Number: 689960730, 25901394
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Subject
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Songs with piano; Ballads, American; Deafness --Songs and music; Mute persons --Songs and music; Sheet music
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Transcription
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The soft summer air stirr’d in music the light
Of stars render’d fainter the shadows of night
The moon was on high and her silver-y beams
Shone in where a beautiful girl lay in dreams.
Glad voices, sweet music, and love’s welcome word
Of endearment, the beauteous child never heard!
Nor ever did sounds from her mute lips impart,
The wealth of pure feeling that mantled her heart.
She dream’d that two angels on earth did alight,
Bright spirits from Heaven in garments of white!
To heal earth’s diseases they came lowly there,
The child’s mother knelt down before them in prayer,
She pray’d for her mute child, in hope and in fear;
Words, words from the silent one’s lips, She would hear;
his hand o’er the maiden, An Angel upraised:
She heard, and her soft voice came forth! God be prais’d!
She heard the sweet voices of earth from each tongue,
Soft music: and words, How they merrily rung,
From her lips! But alas! Fly the shadows of night
And wakening morn, comes with visionless light!
Her golden dream fled dreary stillness again, Is her lot!
And all voiceless her pleasure, her pain;
She weeps that the earth, again gloomy should seem,
But blesses her God, for the beautiful dream,
But blesses her God, for the beautiful dream.
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Contributor
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Jacob, composer
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Publisher
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New York: C. Holt, Jr.
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Date Issued
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1847
