A magic moment I remember
I raised my eyes and you were there
A fleeting vision, the quintessence 
Of all that's beautiful and rare
 I pray to mute despair and anguish 
To vain pursuits the world esteems,
Long did I near your soothing accents, 
Long did your features haunt my dreams. 
Time passed- A rebel storm-blast scattered 
The reveries that once were mine 
And I forgot your soothing accents, 
Your features gracefully divine. 
In dark days of enforced retirement 
I gazed upon grey skies above 
With no ideals to inspire me, 
No one to cry for, live for, love. 
Then came a moment of renaissance, 
I looked up- you again are there,
 A fleeting vision, the quintessence 
Of all that's beautiful and rare
