Six Selected Lyrics

Song Cycle by Charles A. Speyer

?. When I set out for Lyonnesse  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
 When I set out for Lyonnesse,
   A hundred miles away,
   The rime was on the spray,
 And starlight lit my lonesomeness
 When I set out for Lyonnesse
   A hundred miles away.

 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
   While I should sojourn there
   No prophet durst declare,
 Nor did the wisest wizard guess
 What would bechance at Lyonnesse
   While I should sojourn there.

 When I came back from Lyonnesse
   With magic in my eyes,
   [None managed to surmise
 What meant my godlike gloriousness]1,
 When I came back from Lyonnesse
   With magic in my eyes!

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1 Finzi: "All marked with mute surmise / My radiance rare and fathomless" ; Gibbs: "All marked with mute surmise / What meant my godlike gloriousness"

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