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by Charles Isaac Elton, QC (1839 - 1900)

Come out and climb the garden‑path
Language: English 
Come out and climb the garden-path,
Luriana Lurilee,
The China rose is all abloom
And buzzing with the yellow bee
We'll swing you on the cedar-bough,
Luriana Lurilee.

I wonder if it seems to you
Luriana Lurillee
That all the lives we ever lived
And all the lives to be,
Are full of trees and waving leaves,
Luriana Lurilee.

How long it seems since you and I,
Luriana Lurilee.
Roamed in the forest where our kind
Had just begun to be,
And laughed & chattered in the flowers,
Luriana Lurilee.

How long since you and I went out,
Luriana Lurilee
To see the kings go riding by
Over lawn and daisylea,
With their palm-sheaves and cedar-leaves
Luriana Lurilee.

Swing, swing on the cedar bough!
Luriana Lurilee
Till you sleep in a bramble-heap
Or under the gloomy churchyard-tree,
And then fly back to swing on a bough,
Luriana Lurilee.

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Note: quoted in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Isaac Elton, QC (1839 - 1900), "A garden song" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Aristea Mellos , "Louriana Lourilee", 2014. [soprano and piano] [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-02-07
Line count: 30
Word count: 148

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