Walter de la Mare Suite

Song Cycle by Edgar Martin Deale (1902 - 1999)

?. The little salamander  [sung text not yet checked]

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When I go free,
I think 'twill be
A night of stars and snow,
And the wild fires of frost shall light
My footsteps as I go;
Nobody--nobody will be there
With groping touch, or sight,
To see me in my bush of hair
Dance burning through the night.

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?. Tom's angel

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No one was in the fields
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?. The familiar  [sung text not yet checked]

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'Are you far away?'
'Yea, I am far — far;
Where the green wave shelves to the sand,
And the rainbows are;
And an ageless sun beats fierce
From an empty sky:
There, O thou Shadow forlorn,
Is the wraith of thee, I.'

'Are you happy, most Lone?'
'Happy, forsooth!
Who am eyes of the air; voice of the foam;
Ah, happy in truth.
My hair is astream, this cheek
Glistens like silver, and see,
As the gold to the dross, the ghost in the mirk,
I am calling to thee.'

'Nay, I am bound.
And your cry faints out in my mind.
Peace not on earth have I found,
Yet to earth am resigned.
Cease thy shrill mockery, Voice,
Nor answer again.'
'O Master, thick cloud shuts thee out
And cold tempests of rain.'

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Confirmed with Walter De la Mare, The Veil and other Poems, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1922, pages 61-62.


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