From the musical comedy “The Debutante”, a 1914 operetta
Alternate title: The golden age
words by Robert B. Smith
music by Victor Herbert
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
My life is like a boat that’s sailing on a sunlit, azure sea, away
Love is the pilot, he is guiding to a land unknown to me, today
A distant island undiscovered ev’ry happy girl must find, at last
Ah! may the journey be as happy as the dear days past
Chorus
The springtime of life is fairest
The future a pearl appears
And the days that to us are the rarest
Are seen thro’ the mist of years
Dream days! Fondly we gaze
Then time gently turns the page
And the things that we dreamed
Are not what they seemed
In the beautiful golden age
Sung here by Fred Feild: