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Two Songs for Medium Voice

by Roy Ewing Agnew (1893 - 1944)

1. O moonlight deep and tender  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
O moonlight deep and tender,
  A year and more agone,
Your mist of golden splendor
  Round my betrothal shone!

O elm-leaves dark and dewy,
  The very same ye seem,
The low wind trembles through ye,
  Ye murmur in my dream!

O river, dim with distance,
  Flow thus forever by,
A part of my existence
  Within your heart doth lie!

O stars, ye saw our meeting,
  Two beings and one soul,
Two hearts so madly beating
  To mingle and be whole!

O happy night, deliver
  Her kisses back to me,
Or keep them all, and give her
  A blisslul dream of me!

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. Beloved stoop down thro' the clinging dark
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Beloved stoop down thro' the clinging dark and comfort me. 
The faded flower lies mingled with the dust. 
And on the sea a lone seagull goes drifting by 
white-winged, white-winged but dead.
Ah, fold me in your arms
and shut out sea and land and sky,
I would be lost merged utterly with thee.
While floating by like ships at dusk so silently,
cloud-clad, the white-winged dead.

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