Let it be forgotten as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold. Let it be forgotten forever and ever. Time is a kind friend, he will make us old. If anyone [asks]1, say it was forgotten, Long and long ago. As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed foot-fall In a long forgotten snow.
Two Songs by Sara Teasdale
Song Cycle by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962)
?. Let it be forgotten  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Let it be forgotten", appears in Flame and Shadow, first published 1920
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Qu'il soit oublié", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Mills: "should ask"
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?. Only a cry  [sung text not yet checked]
Oh, there are eyes that he can see, And hands to make his hands rejoice, But to my lover I must be Only a voice. Oh, there are breasts to bear his head, And lips whereon his lips can lie, But I must be till I am dead Only a cry.
Authorship:
- by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "A cry", appears in Rivers to the Sea, first published 1915
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission