Two Songs , opus 19

by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)

1. Love in the almond bough

Language: English

Love in the almond bough buildeth his nest
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Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Love in the almond bough"

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2. The mountains [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Still, and blanched, and cold, and lone,
The icy hills far off from me
With frosty ulys overgrown
Stand in their sculptured secrecy.

No path of theirs the chamois fleet
Treads, with a nostril to the wind;
O'er their ice-marbled glaciers beat
No wings of eagles in my mind --

Yea, in my mind these mountains rise,
Their perils dyed with evening's rose;
And still my ghost sits at my eyes
And thirsts for their untroubled snows.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The mountains", appears in The Listeners and Other Poems, first published 1912

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