Language: English 
I shall be beautiful when you come back,
With beauty that is not of lips or eyes,
And you will look at me with swift surprise,
Seeing in me that loveliness I lack;

And you will wonder how this beauty grew
In all the restless clamour of the days,
Not knowing that I walk in cloistered ways,
Bearing within one rapt, sweet thought of you.

Composition:

    Set to music by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "Transformation", published 1922, copyright © 1922 [ low voice and piano ], New York: G. Schirmer

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This text was added to the website: 2020-07-08
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