Four Trifles

Song Cycle by Marius Flothuis (1914 - 2001)

Word count: 42

1. Falling asleep in an orchard

Every girl, my mother said,/ She must learn, if she would wed
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Authorship

by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 - 1978), copyright ©

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2. The look [sung text not yet checked]

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
  Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
  And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
  Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
  Haunts me night and day.

Authorship

by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "The look", appears in Rivers to the Sea, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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3. Black eyes

Long Molly Samways went by just then/ Strange how that girl gets off with the men!
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by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 - 1978), "Black eyes", appears in The Espalier, first published 1925, copyright ©

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4. The seal-woman

Out of the sea the actress came/ and all the mills stopped milling their grain
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by Kathleen Raine (1908 - 2003), "The seal-woman", appears in Stone and Flower, first published 1943, copyright ©

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