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  • Songs of Childhood Days (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
Songs of Childhood Days (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
There was poverty in that little country home, but there was also its one redeeming corollary: Hope, which was represented in the girl's violin. The mother gave the girl their meager surplus, and she came with her hope and her genius to ...See moreThere was poverty in that little country home, but there was also its one redeeming corollary: Hope, which was represented in the girl's violin. The mother gave the girl their meager surplus, and she came with her hope and her genius to the far-away city. Her music sang its way into the hearts of the metropolis, and she became famed and favored. Then she met him, and he loved her. He was the son of aristocratic and arrogant wealth. And in her love and its happiness and the ecstasy of her triumph she forgot the humble home and the tender, trusting mother. The short and seldom letters soon ceased entirely, and the anxious mother-heart hungered and yearned for news of the girl. So she came to the city. The girl made it evident that her presence displeased and embarrassed her, so she returned to the farm. A few weeks later the girl received the news that scattered and shattered her joys. Her mother had made her last earthly pilgrimage to her last earthly hope, had gone over the hills with her ills to the poor-house. With a sob she read the accusing words and heard her heart and its true message. Everything became desperately dark, her mind forgot, and for a moment the world was not. And in the darkness she saw the light. Love knows no caste, so she told him, told him all, and together they went to her. Outside the old mother's room she stood and played the songs of her childhood: and ghosts of the dreams of the past visited the desolate woman's mind, and phantom smiles lighted up her face with the old happiness and the old hope. Still the girl played, and the haunting, happy notes floated into the room and into the soul of the woman, and her heart responded. She moved toward whence the message of another day had come; she opened the door that was the barrier between herself and the resurrection of a dead desire, and she was clasped to the redeemed heart of the girl. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Stanner E.V. Taylor
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Mar 10, 1912 (United States)

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