The Garden

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There once was a garden where everything died

Even the birds had flown off to hide

The mighty oaks had lost all of their branches

As for the flowers , long ago had they all of their chances


Even the sky turned black as it scurried by

Then all of the gray clouds had to cry and cry

The floods could not wash away the pain

Those who lived there died or simply went insane


Laughter had been banned years ago

The crow's kaw kaw , was never a show

The only sound that was to be heard

Was the unearthly wail of the missing violin's words


Under moonlit , shadowy night

The strings cried blood and tears forthright

Even the moon overcome lost one dusty tear

To the life missing after all of these years



One night the cry of the music stopped

The last string had finally popped

The violin laid down in the shallowest ground

And there was never again another sound


And years had now gone on by

No one living then was left alive

There had been a revolt or so

Flowers once again started to grow


Trees sprouted out and began to bud

Once again you could feel life's gentle nudge

The grass carpeted the woodland floors

Happiness returned to all once more


Now all had forgotten about the missing violin

But sometimes if you listen to the midnight's wind

You can hear it while it goes about tuning

For all of it's sins had long been forgiven




On the evening of February 28 , 1936 , a violin made by
Antonio Stradivari of Cremona in 1713 , was stolen backstage
at Carnegie Hall . It belonged to Bronislaw Huberman , a virtuoso ,
and he never saw his beloved violin again . But fifty years later in 1985 , the wife of Julian Altman heard her husband's deathbed confession that he had bought the stolen violin for $100 . Three years later after verifying the authenticity of the instrument , she turned the violin over to Lloyds of London , the insurers that paid Huberman $30,000 in 1936 . Mrs Altman was paid a finders fee of $263,000 and Loyds later sold the violin in auction for $1,200,000 to Norbert Brainin of English fame .