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by Marion Doyle (1898 - 1974)

Your Leafy Voice
 (Sung text for setting by F. Price)
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Language: English 
May I who so loved woodlands,
Where my body goes back to nourish grasses,
The nettle and rose,
Find your hand outstretched to guide
My bewildered spirit back,
Down the path of the wind,
And the blinding zodiac,
To some wooded hillside slope
Such as now I see,
And crying in your leafy voice,
Open sesame!
Bid my homing spirit
Welcome to a tree

Composition:

    Set to music by Florence Beatrice Price (1887 - 1953), "Your Leafy Voice" [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Marion Doyle (1898 - 1974), copyright status unknown

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