Two Songs by Sara Teasdale

Song Cycle by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962)

?. Let it be forgotten  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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.

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  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Qu'il soit oublié", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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?. Only a cry  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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.

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  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Total word count: 114