by Charles Isaac Elton, QC (1839 - 1900)
Come out and climb the garden‑path
Language: English
Come out and climb the garden-path, Luriana Lurilee, The China rose is all abloom And buzzing with the yellow bee We'll swing you on the cedar-bough, Luriana Lurilee. I wonder if it seems to you Luriana Lurillee That all the lives we ever lived And all the lives to be, Are full of trees and waving leaves, Luriana Lurilee. How long it seems since you and I, Luriana Lurilee. Roamed in the forest where our kind Had just begun to be, And laughed & chattered in the flowers, Luriana Lurilee. How long since you and I went out, Luriana Lurilee To see the kings go riding by Over lawn and daisylea, With their palm-sheaves and cedar-leaves Luriana Lurilee. Swing, swing on the cedar bough! Luriana Lurilee Till you sleep in a bramble-heap Or under the gloomy churchyard-tree, And then fly back to swing on a bough, Luriana Lurilee.
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Note: quoted in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927)
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Isaac Elton, QC (1839 - 1900), "A garden song" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Aristea Mellos , "Louriana Lourilee", 2014. [soprano and piano] [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-07
Line count: 30
Word count: 148