Songs of Love

Song Cycle by Lena Johnson McLin (1928 - 2023)

1. Silence
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
'T is better to sit here beside the sea,
  Here on the spray-kissed beach,
In silence, that between such friends as we
  Is full of deepest speech.

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2. The Unlucky Apple
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
‘Twas an apple in Eden
Caused our father’s primal fall;
And the Trojan War, remember —
‘Twas an apple caused it all.
Now for weeks I’ve hesitated,
You can guess the reason why,
For I want to tell my darling
She’s the apple of my eye.

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3. If I could give you all I have
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
If I could give you all I have
it would not be enough.
If all my life I’d grasp and save
it would not fill this love.
All men living, all men dead
conceiving of love,
in all the words their hearts have said,
have not said enough 
to make the whole star reach of sky
they might be thinking of,
deep as this simple you and I. 
Your love, my love.

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Total word count: 147