Lotte Lehmann's first English poem

Bridge To Eternity

You, who for a moment's span were made --
Song, word, and evanescent tone -
Are not lost forever in the shade,
In mystic darkness of a source unknown.

Boldly snatched from time's remorseless flight,
By new-found might of Science held in place,
You live, enchanted, in the glorious light
Of immemorial and eternal space.

O wondrous force! How strange it is to think
That man's unfathomed genius can prolong
The fragile chain that holds from Lethe's brink
The fleeting beauty of a moment's song.