Our Singers Abroad

These song birds f rom America, they came acroag the sea To carol in our operas and take the upper L; Time was when ark Italians held all the lyrio stage, Time was when fair haired Teutons were the operatic rage; But now la belle Americaine has come across thO foam To take the British dollar back to many a west; ern home. Nevada's here, and Nórdica, and Eroch, and Mlnnie Hauk, And others who but lately sang in Boston and New York ; Hastreiter, Dotii, Engle, too, and Russell and Van Zandt, And brilliant Marie Decca to America we grant; Miss Thursby, Henchel, Osgood, with our Sterling and Hope Qlenn, Could fltly claim America's most euloRistic pen. How is it that Americans have this great gift of song, That fast they come, and faster still to join the cboral throng? One fancies that eech baby soul in infancy divines The music of their mighty streams, the wind harp in thepines; And then we br in London town - and who would grodfce the fee?- The messapc Mississippi brings from mountain unto sea!