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Songs with Piano

by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)

1. As I lay in the early sun  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
As I lay in the early sun,
Stretched in the grass, I thought upon
My true love, my dear love,
Who has my heart forever
Who is my happiness when we meet,
My sorrow when we sever.
She is all fire when I do burn,
Gentle when I moody turn,
Brave when I am sad and heavy
And all laughter when I am merry.
And so I lay and dreamed and dreamed,
And so the day wheeled on,
While all the birds with thoughts like mine
Were singing to the sun.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Shanks (1892 - 1953), "Song", appears in The Queen of China and Other Poems, first published 1919

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2. The fields are full  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The fields are full of summer still
  And breathe again upon the air
From brown dry side of hedge and hill
  More sweetness than the sense can bear.

So some old couple, who in youth
  With love were filled and over-full,
And loved with strength and loved with truth,
  In heavy age are beautiful.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Shanks (1892 - 1953), "The fields are full", appears in The Queen of China and Other Poems, first published 1919

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3. For remembrance  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Let us remember how we came 
To Fletching in the trees, 
Where stood the high and misty down 
Between us and the seas. 

Let us remember how we crossed 
Ouse, Adur, Arun, three 
Slight rivers rolling in their broad 
Green valleys to the sea. 

Let us remember most of all 
When this bright air no more 
We breathe, what young and morning oaths 
On the high hills we swore.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Shanks (1892 - 1953), "For remembrance", appears in The Queen of China and Other Poems, first published 1919

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Total word count: 214
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