"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It is "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show."
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Famous quotes containing the words enchanted evening, enchanted and/or evening:
“Some enchanted evening,
You may see a stranger,
You may see a stranger,
Across a crowded room.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
“Where is the nightingale,
in what myrrh-wood and dim?
ah, let the night come back,
for we would conjure back
all that enchanted him,
all that enchanted him.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)