Trois Poèmes

Song Cycle by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)

1. Chanson de Rossetti

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2. A Birthday  [sung text not yet checked]

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My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
  That paddles in a [purple]1 sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
  Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of [silk and down]2;
  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
  In leaves and [silver]3 fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
  Is come, my love, is come to me.

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1 Aldridge, Hall: "halcyon"
2 Parry: "purple and gold"
3 Aldridge: "tiny"

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3. The roaring frost  [sung text not yet checked]

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A flock of winds came winging from the North,
Strong birds with fighting pinions driving forth
      With a resounding call: -- 
 
Where will they close their wings and cease their cries -- 
Between what warming seas and conquering skies -- 
      And fold, and fall?

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Total word count: 152