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up from Portsmouth by train. At a station on the line he bought an evening paper, and was horrified to learn from a brief paragraph that a terrible yachting accident had happened at Cowes, and that several lives were lost He dashed out of the train and telegraphed to some friends at the Isle of Wight, and then continued his journey to London, hoping and expecting to find a reply at his house. To his surprise no telegram came. He wandered up and down the house disconsolate, and without thinking, opened a drawer where he found a copy of some verses which had been sent him months before, but which he had scarcely noticed. Glancing through them hurriedly, the line, " I know not when that day may be" caught his eye, and instantly the complete theme of the song burst upon him. Presently came satisfactory tele-grams, and he sat down and wrote out the whole of the music from beginning to end. The result we most of us know for " Some Day" " caught on" enormously with all classes of singers, and proved a success in every sense of the word. The words were written by poor Hugh Conway, author of" Called Back," who was cut off just when fame had come to him with bounteous offerings. |
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