| Collection |
Bowd Osborne Misc. papers |
| Date |
1897 |
| Abstract |
Apiece of sheet music titled "Thema" about a sailboat and dedicated to Mr. Frank B. McQuesten.
On the cover is a drawing of a gaff rigged sloop in a harbor with other boats. It is undersail with the mainsail rigged.
The words are:
Amid the black hulls of the fisher boats,
Their canvas all drooping and gray;
The beautiful Thelma at mooring floats,
In a bend of the sheltering bay,
The quivering bark is a marvelous dream,
As she welcomes the whispering waves,
Her fluttering pinions imprison the gleam
Of the path the red sum monarch paves.
In the North 'neath a sky that is rarer than rare,
Lies the snow in a brilliance of white;
From the Snow-land came Thelma, a visitant fair?
Did she bear in her wings all the light?
Or out of the South did she fly like a bird
To find a fair haven of rest?
Or out of the dawn-dwelling East has she err'd?
Did a wind waft her out of the West?
But her sails all un-sullied, un-wearied she holds,
Nor deigns us the answer we pray;
For Thelma is safe in the fisher-boat folds
When the shadows dream laden hold sway.
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| Home Location |
FK Box 18X13 Charlie Shelf#2 |
| Object ID |
1961-004-06018 |
| Object Name |
Music, Sheet |
| People |
McQuesten, Frank B.
Castle, Mable Wing
Fuller, Mary V.
Fuller, Warren A.
Ditson, Oliver |
| Search Terms |
Thelma |
| Title |
Thelma |
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