A 1913 popular song.
Words by Otto Hauerbach.
Music by Rudolf Friml.
The sheet music:
Player piano roll scanned by Terry Smythe:
Lyrics
Spun from the mists of a dream
With rare tints from rainbow lands
A bubble of silver you seem
Borne aloft by fairy hands
Symbol of love and its bliss
Like the gold of smiling dawn
Fair for a moment, then kissed
By the sun and gone
REFRAIN
Float on! float on!
Fair bubble of rainbow hue
Float on! float on!
Love's symbol, alas, too true
Float on! float on!
And vanish in Heaven's own blue
With lovers' tears and hopes and fears
Bubbles all, like you
Sung by tenor Emory B. Randolph: