Tender Only to One

Song Cycle by Robin Holloway (b. 1943)

?. Tender only to one  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Tender only to one   
Tender and true   
The petals swing   
To my fingering
Is it you, or you, or you?

Tender only to one
I do not know his name
And the friends who fall   
To the petals' call
May think my love to blame.

Tender only to one   
This petal holds a clue   
The face it shows
But too well knows   
Who I am tender to.

Tender only to one,
Last petal's latest breath
Cries out aloud
From the icy shroud
His name, his name is Death.

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4. So to fatness come

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Total word count: 88