Moonlight And Starlight

 

Out where the moonlight silvers the bay,

Out where the stars all wonders display,

Come let us sail, oh, come let us go

Over the deep where the summer winds blow.

Moonlight Sailing By Hopewell Rocks
New Brunswick, Canada

(2013)

Patricia L. Davidson

Dear to our hearts though mountains may be,

Here is a night for the wave and the sea;

Never before was ocean so fair,

Moonlight and starlight are calling us there,

Moonlight and starlight are calling us there.

Moonlight is magic; starlight, a spell;

Over the world they have woven it well.

Night of enchantment, glamorous night!

Surely the mermaids are singing tonight.

Come, let us sail, then, out where the breeze

Stirs in splendor the crest of the seas.

Never again may scene be so fair,

Moonlight and starlight are calling us there,

Moonlight and starlight are calling us there.

"Moonlight and Starlight"
Stephen C. Foster
(1826-1864)
American songwriter
"The Father of American Music"