Three Songs with Piano

by Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951)

1. The ruin of the Ku‑Su Palace
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
In the deserted garden among the crumbling walls
The willows show green again,
While the sweet notes of the waternut song
Seem to lament the spring.
Nothing remains but the moon above the river
The moon that once shone on the fair faces
That smiled in the king's palace of Wu.

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2. The intruder
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
The grass of Yen is growing green and long
While in Chin the leafy mulberry branches hang low.
Even now when my longing heart is breaking,
Are you thinking, my dear, of coming back to me?
O wind of spring, you are a stranger,
Why do you enter through the silken curtains of my bower?

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3. On the city street
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Language: English 
They meet in the pink dust of the city street.
He raises his gold crop high in salute.
“Lady,” says he, “where do you live?
There are ten thousand houses among the drooping willow trees.”

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