Songs of Nature

Song Cycle by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941)

?. The bough of May  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I bended unto me a bough of May,
That I might see and smell:
It bore it in a sort of way,
It bore it very well.
But, when I let it backward sway,
Then it were hard to tell
With what a toss, with what a swing,
The dainty thing
Resumed its proper level,
And sent me to the devil.
I know it did -- you doubt it?
I turned, and saw them whispering about it.

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