Hope

Song Cycle by Ingunn Ligaarden (b. 1977)

Publisher: Bo Ejeby Förlag (external link)

1. If I can stop one heart from breaking  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

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2. Hope is the thing with feathers  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Hope is [the]1 thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

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  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Syderman: "a"; further changes may exist not noted.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 111