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The Enchanted Hour

Song Cycle by John Rippiner Heath (b. 1887)

?. The white window  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The moon comes every night to peep 
Through the window where I lie, 
And I pretend to be asleep ; 
But I watch the moon as it goes by, 
And it never makes a sound. 

It stands and stares, and then it goes 
To the house that's next to me, 
Stealing on its tippy-toes, 
To peep at folk asleep maybe ; 
And it never makes a sound. 

Text Authorship:

  • by James Stephens (1882 - 1950), "The white window", appears in The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin, first published 1915

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 65
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