"My Angel Nina" (1880)
Song and Chorus
by C[ornelius]. Everest. [1820-1885+]

Philadelphia: J. E. Ditson & Co.
Boston: O. Ditson & Co.
Chicago: Lyon & Healy
[XNSFX?]: C. H. Ditson & Co.
Galveston: T. Goggan & Bro.
Savanah: Ludsan & Banes
S. Francisco: Sherman & Hyde & Co.
Plate Number: 47879
[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M2.3.U6A44
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1870-1885
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division.
DIGITAL ID
sm1880 14285 urn:hdl:loc.music/sm1880.14285
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1880.14285]

1. When the shadows soft were creeping,
And the sun far down the west;
When the singing birds were sleeping,
And all nature seem’d at rest.
Then the voice of my sweet Nina,
Like the music from above;
Floated sweetly o’er the valley,
Breathing purity and love.

[REFRAIN sung after each VERSE]
Like the summer flower she faded,
And her spirit pass’d away
Still I hear her voice as ever,
For it haunts me night and day.

CHORUS [sung twice after each REFRAIN]
Like the summer flower she faded,
And her spirits pass’d away
Still I hear her voice as ever,
For it haunts me night and day.

2. Never bloom’d on earth a flower,
Half so fair and sweet as she;
Never bird in wood or bower,
Ever sung each melody.
And her spirit knew no sadness,
For her heart was gay and light;
And her eye shone bright with gladness,
As the stars above at night.

3. And her hair with golden ringlets,
Playing ’round a neck of snow;
While her eyes like dancing sunbeams,
Seen on waves as brooklets flow.
And her voice so soft and tender,
Breathing nought but joy and love;
Seem’d like gentile murm’ring accents,
Wafted from some sphere above.