Days and Moments

Song Cycle by Robin Humphrey Milford (1903 - 1959)

?. Autumn [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

There is a wind where the rose was;
Cold rain where sweet grass was;
And clouds like sheep
Stream o'er the steep
Grey skies where the lark was. 

Nought gold where your hair was;
Nought warm where your hand was;
But phantom, forlorn,
Beneath the thorn,
Your ghost where your face was. 

Sad winds where your voice was;
Tears, tears where my heart was;
And ever with me,
Child, ever with me,
Silence where hope was.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "Autumn", from Poems, first published 1906

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