Five Songs of Innocence and Experience

Song Cycle by Edward Gregson (b. 1945)

1. As I pass at dusk

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2. To the thawing wind  [sung text not yet checked]

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Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snow-bank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate'er you do to-night,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ices go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit's crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o'er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.

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3. A carol

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Melt the glass and leave the sticks
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4. Come live with me  [sung text not yet checked]

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Come, live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
Of peace and plenty, bed and board,
That chance employment may afford.

I'll handle dainties on the docks
And thou shalt read of summer frocks:
At evening by the sour canals
We'll hope to hear some madrigals.

Care on thy maiden brow shall put
A wreath of wrinkles, and thy foot
Be shod with pain: not silken dress
But toil shall tire thy loveliness.

Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone -
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

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  • by Cecil Day Lewis (1904 - 1972), "Come, live with me and be my love", a parody [an adaptation]

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  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Komm, leb' mit mir und werde mein", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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5. To my brother  [sung text not yet checked]

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Give me your hand, my brother, search my face;
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame;
For we have made an end of all things base.
We are returning by the road we came.
  
Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead,
And I am in the field where men must fight.
But in the gloom I see your laurell'd head
And through your victory I shall win the light.

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  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "À mon frère", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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First published in Saturday Review, February 1916, as "Brothers", subsequently revised and retitled

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