DAVY MITCHELL'S DAUGHTER.
DAW" MITCHELL'S DAUGHTER. (Madame Mclba savs she is prouder of being her father's daughter than of having charmed the occupants of tho thrones of Europe.) Tho earth I may have circled round; I've sung to Kings and Kaisers; I may have stirred the depths profound Of millionaires and misersI may have sung them Tosti's gem, Or Banks of Allan Water, But still, before the best of them, I'm Davy Mitchell's daughter. I may be peerless queen of song, Interpreting Rossini. I may have charmed tho vasty throng From even Totrazzini. As Carmen I havo sung of steel Of sentiment and slaughter, But best of all I love to feel I'm Davy Mitchell's daughter. God sent the sun into my soul, And taught me all my singing; Tho winds that wing from Pols to Poio Are inspiration bringing. Some song-bird sang to me at birth, And I, delighted, caught her, Bringing the priceless gifts of earth To Davy Mitchell's "daughter. When I my ballad last have sung, And closed mv scores for ever, The grand old gums I'd be among To know no sorrowed sever. So when at last I ferry o'er The nether Hiygian water, When I have earned my heav'nly lyro May I* ho claimed amid the choir As Davy Mitchell's daughter. —Dryblower, in the Perth " Sunday Times."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11148, 5 August 1914, Page 4
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