
SHORT FLIGHTS
TO THE SEASONS.
SONG.
’TIS NEVER NIGHT IN LOVE’S DOMAIN.
ESTRANGED.
WHEN FRIENDS ARE PARTED.
WHEREAWAY.
A SECRET.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
STRIVING.
A lyrical journey unfolds as a solitary voice weaves together the rhythms of nature, love, and memory. Through vivid seasonal imagery—spring’s quickening heartbeat, summer’s ripe abundance, autumn’s solemn winds, and winter’s hardening resolve—the narrator asks what it means to belong and to be remembered.
The work shifts between intimate reflections on friendship’s endurance and the quiet ache of loss, using the flight of birds and the turning of the year as gentle metaphors. Poetic fragments echo the paradox of joy and sorrow, suggesting that even in darkness there is a persistent, hopeful refrain.
With a tone that feels both reverent and conversational, the piece invites listeners to linger on each line, to hear the music in the juxtaposition of gladness and grief. It offers a meditative space where the listener can contemplate the cycles of life and the enduring echo of love’s domain.
Language
en
Duration
~57 minutes (55K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)
Release date
Dec 6, 2020
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1866–1947
A bestselling Indiana novelist, journalist, and diplomat, he wrote brisk, entertaining fiction that made him a national name in the early 1900s. Today he is especially remembered for The House of a Thousand Candles and for his place in Indiana's literary golden age.
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