Two Songs [lost]

by Alan Dudley Bush (1900 - 1995)

1. The moth [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into glooming and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!'

Lovely in dye and fan,
A-tremble in shimmering grace,
A moth from her winter swoon
Uplifts her face:

Stares from her glamorous eyes;
Wafts her on plumes like mist;
In ecstasy swirls and sways
To her strange tryst.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The moth", appears in Flora: A Book of Drawings, first published 1919

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2. Heard on a saltmarsh

Language: English

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Text Authorship:

by Harold Monro (1879 - 1932)

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Total word count: 59