Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy - The Angel's Plea

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sing a medley of their movie hits from a 1948 radio broadcast. Included in the video is an original poem (below) dedicated to Jeanette and Nelson. Colorizations are by Di Taylor.

The Angel's Plea
Nelson and Jeanette in a world they never met,
still set our hearts a racing at the mention of their names.
Superstars of long ago, love lives filled with joy and woe;
were stymied by their nemesis, a warlock from below,
the roaring ferret robber who 'twas their mortal foe.

A love that was thus heaven sent, suppressed by low and cruel events,
their lover's hearts were trodden by the tyrant's heavy boot
and suffered unto perish, yet bore such wondrous fruit...
that angels wept for want of pain and pleaded God to feel the same.

Their tear drops fell to earth that day as soft caressing rain,
anointing the fair haired lovers and dowsing the dragon's flame.
The angels ceased their weeping, the sun burst forth in sky,
the golden pair walked hand in hand into the blinding light
and breathing in the newborn air, did heave a grateful sigh.

One night as they lay sleeping with limbs and arms entwined,
from ink black sky with frosted specks, an angel descends with a quiet step
to claim the somnolent dreamers as their own,
and secrets them to lofty perch far above this weary earth.
Safe from trolls and warlocks and all such mortal foes....
from those who squander beauty or spoil the fairest rose.

In a hazy shell, by the sea we dwell, bereft of their golden light
awaiting the pure, cool moonlight to brighten dimmest night
as eager eyes scan dusky skies for the trace of a dear long lost face
or a glimpse from afar of a profile in stars to comfort this loneliest place.

So we puzzle and search 'ore all the wide earth,
for answers we never will find.
And yet this one truth we bear in our mind;
that they were ours completely, if but for a short, sweet time.
Angela Ridolfo Messino

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