Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness" , opus 51

by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)

1. Neglected Moon!
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Neglected Moon! Romance and you
Are not in fashion now.
These moderns have no time to woo
And dare not risk a vow.

In good Victoria's ampler day,
By parks or village greens,
What fervent whiskers caught your ray,
What bashful crinolines!

In vain do you, with all your stars,
Make wood or river bright;
For lovers now rush by in cars,
And use electric light.

Yet now for once I'll dare to say
That, though we scorn the Past,
Perhaps the world was quite as gay
Before it went so fast.

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2. Arrogant Poppies
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
 Though people more wise
 May laugh me to scorn,
 At least I was gay
 From the hour I was born.
 Just like the wind
 On a midsummer morn
	Teasing the poppies,
	The arrogant poppies,
	Teasing the poppies
	That peer from the corn.

 What lovers I've seen, 
 What vows they have sworn,
 I listened, I laughed
 And I left them forlorn;
 Just like the wind 
 On a midsummer morn
	Teasing the poppies,
	The arrogant poppies,
	Teasing the poppies
	That peer from the corn.

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3. The chains of love

Language: English 
O woman, fair shape!
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Text Authorship:

  • by Clifford Bax (1886 - 1962), from the play for music, Midsummer Madness, first published 1924

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4. The rejected lover
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Hear me, you hollyhocks;
You dark delphiniums, hear!
From now, from now, henceforth,
I vow I'll hold no woman dear.

What do we find in love?
At best a pleasing pain.
O, 'tis a snare and I do swear
Never to love again.

Others may play the fool
And learn what passion brings,
But I, set free, shall laugh to see
Their honey-captured wings.

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