MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

By Robert Ettinger

Continued from last issue

The following are bits from Chapter 19, Music of the Spheres, from my new book in progress, Youinverse

(Web site: www.youniverse.biz) ---R.C.W. Ettinger

Here We Are, Adrift on a Star, from The Happiest Girl in the World, music by Jacques Offenbach, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg.

(What follows is a meld of my recollection of part of the lyrics and a few words of my own.)

Here we are, adrift on a star, alone in a silent sky.

Lost in space, together we face the wonder of where and why.

Why the rain and why the rose and why the trembling heart?

I only know, together we go, and never must we part.

The moon, the clouds, the years—they go drifting along.

Music of the spheres, are there words to your song?

We can explore, but where is the shore, and what is the journey for?

A bright, gleaming goal? Or a brief baccarole?

Adrift in space, marooned in time, we know not where we go,

But stay with me, my love, and our spirits will grow.

 

 

Yet Love, by R.C. W. Ettinger:

We may be the hunters,

Who know not what we seek,

And we may be destroyers,

Who guess not what we wreak;

We may be the dreamers,

Who dream not that we sleep,

Yet love may still be faithful,

Its promises to keep.

 

"Somewhere My Love" by Francis Paul Webster

 

The music is Lara’s theme from Dr. Zhivago. A version is available by the Ray Conniff singers.

Somewhere, my love,

There will be songs to sing

Although the snow

Covers the hope of spring.

 

Somewhere a hill

Blossoms in green and gold

And there are dreams

All that your heart can hold.

Someday we'll meet again, my love.

Someday whenever the spring breaks through.

You'll come to me

Out of the long ago,

Warm as the wind,

Soft as the kiss of snow.

Till then, my sweet,

Think of me now and then.

God speed, my love

 

'Til you are mine again.