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According to Popular Music in America, the song's " lush orchestration, expansive form, and above all its soaring melody " allow the singer and character ( Emile ) to " linger in the moment " of immediate infatuation.

Gerald Mast's history of the American musical notes that the song is a climactic moment which reveals that two characters have fallen in love, and it expresses a seize-the-opportunity lyric: " When you find your true love ... Then fly to her side / And make her your own ".

According to the running commentary on the 2006 Fox DVD release of the 1958 film version of South Pacific, Lehman Engel remembered that Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to write a song based around verbs but waited ten years to do so before he wrote this song, in which the verses are built around the verbs " see ", " hear " and " fly ".