Songs from "Omar Khayyám"

Song Cycle by Redgewell Dansie

1. Meditation  [sung text not yet checked]

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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled,
That [every]1 Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in [her]2 lap from some once lovely head.

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1 Lehmann: "ev'ry"
2 first edition, Murray (probably): "its"

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2. Reverie  [sung text not yet checked]

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[For some]1 we [loved]2, the loveliest and [the]3 best 
That [from his Vintage rolling Time has prest]4,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, 
And one by one crept silently to rest.

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1 first edition: "Lo! some"; Lehmann: "Lo, some"
2 Lehmann: "lov'd"
3 omitted in the first edition; also omitted by Lehmann.
4 first edition: "Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest"

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3. Myself when young  [sung text not yet checked]

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by that same door as in I went.

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Total word count: 94