I have a dream for you, Mother [ ... ]
Stories I Heard Yesterday
Song Cycle by Rachel Devore Fogarty
1. But I cannot forget  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "For You, Mother", copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Hilda Conkling, Poems by a Little Girl, Project Gutenberg
2. The Little Stream  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
The little stream , winding , Runs on its way to pour itself Into the dying river And the river lives again In the valley The river waits for water From a feeding stream The little stream , winding , Runs on its way to pour itself Into the dying river , And the river lives again In the valley
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), no title, appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922, copyright status unknown
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Confirmed with The Spectator, Volume 131, F.C. Westley, 1923, p.87; Age 10
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3. A river in her heart  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
The moon is thinking of the river Winding through the mountains far away, Because she has a river in her heart Full of the same silver.
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "Moon thought", appears in Poems by a Little Girl, first published 1920
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Confirmed with Hilda Conkling, Poems by a Little Girl, Project Gutenberg
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4. The words of their loveliness
Language: English
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- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.5. Golden Wave
Language: English
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Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Total word count: 206