Five Songs for Voice and Pianoforte

Song Cycle by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949)

Word count: 58

?. Lean out of the window [sung text not yet checked]

Lean out of the window,
  Goldenhair,
I heard you singing
  A merry air.

My book is closed;
  I read no more,
Watching the fire dance
  On the floor.

I have left my book,
  I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
  Through the gloom,

Singing and singing
  A merry air.
Lean out of the window,
  Goldenhair.

Authorship

by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), appears in Chamber Music, no. 5, first published 1907 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Researcher for this text: Ted Perry