[A Section - Staccato Phrasing] (Short, sharp words that bounce right along with the flute’s crisp, detached steps) Catch a breath, spin a thread, Up above the garden bed. Step and skip, never trip, Drinking up a silver sip. Faerie ring, willow swing, Listen to the shadows sing. Light as lint, out of print, Vanished in a sudden glint. [B Section - Legato Phrasing] (Long, open vowel sounds that stretch out and soar across the smooth, rising and falling melody runs) And we saaaail... on a midnight gaaale... Over fields where the clover grooows... To the edge of the velvet seeeeaa... Where the quiet water flooows... Leave the earth, let the gravity break, Floating high for an hour's saaake... [A Section Variation - Trill Phrasing] (Returning to the bouncy rhythm, but crowding the lines with fast, fluttering internal rhymes to mimic the rapid trills and grace notes) Shiver-shake, wide awake, Ghostly footprints on the lake. Twist and twirl, watch it whirl, Catching every hidden pearl. Feather-light, out of sight, Dancing through the dappled night. Line goes cold, tale is told, Spin the wheel back to gold.
