Five Songs , opus 152

by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)

1. The miracle  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Who is in love with loveliness,
Need not shake with cold;
For he may tear a star in two,
And frock himself in gold.

Who holds her first within his heart,
In certain favor goes;
If his roof tumbles, he may find
Harbor in a rose.

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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.


2. The kiss  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Heap slumber on your eyes;
Stop your mouth with dust;
Be all that you were not,
As dead folk must.

Be all that you were not,
Unmindful, cold, apart —
The kiss you gave that dusk
Tears at your heart!

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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.


3. A carol  [sung text not yet checked]

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Mary the Mother
Sang to her Son,
In a Bethlehem shed
When the light was done.

"Jesus, Jesus,
Little son, sleep;
The tall Kings are gone,
The lads with the sheep.

Jesus, Jesus,
My bosom is warm;
And Joseph and I
Will keep You from harm."

Mary the Mother
Sang to her Son,
In Bethlehem town
When the light was done.

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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.


4. The Roman road ‑ England  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
As he went down the Roman Road
In March or thereabout,
A slender, wild, unbroken gold,
The daffodils were out.

Sudden along the Roman Road
He saw the wind come down,
Behind the golden daffodils,
And drive them into town.

A moment. Yet almost it seemed —
That moment was of old;
A company of spears went by,
All Roman, and all gold.

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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.


5. To Love  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Take me, and break me, Love;
Make me into a thing
More memorable than a star,
Or a tall flower in spring.

If this you will not do,
Down to oblivion thrust;
Into a sleek, forgotten grave,
Crumble me to dust!

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Confirmed with Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wild Cherry, Baltimore, Md: The Norman, Remington Co, 1923.