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by Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall (1880 - 1943)

You lay so still in the sunshine
Language: English 
You lay so still in the sunshine,
So still in that hot sweet hour – 
That the timid things of the forest land
Came close; a butterfly lit on your hand,
Mistaking it for a flow’r.

You scarcely breath’d in your slumber,
So dreamless it was, so deep– 
While the warm air stirr’d in my veins like wine,
The air that had blown thro’ a jasmine vine,
But you slept – and I let you sleep.

Text Authorship:

  • by Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall (1880 - 1943) [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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "You lay so still in the sunshine", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Songs of Sun and Shade, no. 1, Boosey & Co. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-07
Line count: 10
Word count: 76

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