Lieder songs; The songs of Sappho from fragments of the lost poems of Sappho

Song Cycle by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946)

1. Love is so strong a thing  [sung text not yet checked]

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Love is so strong a thing,
The very gods must yield,
When it is welded fast
With the unflinching truth.

Love is so frail a thing,
A word, a look, will kill.
Oh lovers, have a care
How ye do deal with love.

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3. There is a medlar‑tree  [sung text not yet checked]

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There is a medlar tree
Growing in front of my lover's house,
And there all day
The wind makes a pleasant sound.

And when the evening comes,
We sit there together in the dusk,
And watch the stars
Appear in the quiet blue.

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Confirmed with Bliss Carman, Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1904, Page 23.


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6. In the apple boughs  [sung text not yet checked]

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In the apple boughs the coolness
Murmurs, and the grey leaves flicker
Where sleep wanders.

In the garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering footfall
Through the twilight.

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Total word count: 116