With music do you tell a crowning tale

Or stir the hearts of listeners far and near.

Like birds that soar above a peaceful dale,

For full of life, it's like a sacred prayer.

Great kings and princes beg to hear you play

A sonatina just to soothe their minds.

No other man with you can quite compare,

God blessed you with a gift - a special kind.

May all you write become a treasured work,

Or may you never matched in music be.

Zephyrs of notes cascade and fall and lurk,

And seem to jump from off the page to me.

Receive our praise for it has been earned well,

Thenceforward it shall ring from town and dell.