I think of the slope where the rabbits fed, Of the periwinks' rockwork lair, Of the fuchsias ringing their bells of red - And the something else seen there. Between the blooms where the sod basked bright, By the bobbing fuchsia trees, Was another and yet more eyesome sight - The sight that richened these. I shall seek those beauties in the spring, When the days are fit and fair, But only as foils to the one more thing That also will flower there!
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Song Cycle by Bernard James Naylor (1907 - 1986)
?. The Background and the Figure  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "The Background and the Figure", appears in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, first published 1917
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Language: English
Show me again the time When in the Junetide's prime We flew by meads and mountains northerly! - Yea, to such freshness, fairness, fulness, fineness, freeness, Love lures life on. Show me again the day When from the sandy bay We looked together upon the pestered sea! - Yea, to such surging, swaying, sighing, swelling, shrinking, Love lures life on. Show me again the hour When by the pinnacled tower We eyed each other and feared futurity! - Yea, to such bodings, broodings, beatings, blanchings, blessings, Love lures life on. Show me again just this: The moment of that kiss Away from the prancing folk, by the strawberry-tree! - Yea, to such rashness, ratheness, rareness, ripeness, richness, Love lures life on.
Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), "Lines to a movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony", appears in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, first published 1917
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