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Three songs

Song Cycle by Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960)

1. The Lake of Beauty  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world,
and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart desires,
all that your Nature so specially fits you for -- that or the
counterpart of it of it waits embedded in the great Whole, for you.
It will surely come to you.
Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed time
will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of
hands will make no difference.
Therefore do not begin that game at all.
Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind
in this direction and in that,
lest you become like a spring lost and
dissipated in the desert.
But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them
still, so still;
And let them become clear, so clear -- so limpid, so mirror-like;
at last the mountains and sky shall glass themselves in peaceful beauty,
and the antelope shall descend to drink and to gaze at her
reflected image, and the lion to quench his thirst,
and Love himself shall come and bend over and catch his
own likeness in you. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929), "The Lake of Beauty", appears in Towards Democracy, first published 1883

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Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

2. Child of the lonely heart

Language: English 
Child of the lonely heart
 . . . . . . . . . .

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added as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929), "Child of the lonely heart", appears in Towards Democracy, first published 1883

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3. The triumph of civilisation

Language: English 
On the outskirts of a great city
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929), "The triumph of civilisation", appears in Towards Democracy, first published 1883

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Total word count: 199
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