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by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)
Translation

The banks of the daisies
Language: English  after the English 
As Kathleen fair beyond compare
Asleep upon a bank I spied;
All upon tiptoe I sought her side
And kissed her down in the daisies.

But up she starts and on me darts
The shafts of scorn from lip and eye,
Then in a storm goes sweeping by,
And leaves me alone with the daisies.

But when next day I chanced that way,
There Kathleen blushed in all her charms,
With sighs she sank into my arms,
And we told our love to the daisies.

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It is based on

  • a text in English by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931), "The banks of the daisies"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The banks of the daisies", published [1882?] [voice and piano], from the collection Songs of Old Ireland. A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies Unknown in England, no. 45, arrangement ; London, Boosey & Co. ; dedicated to Johannes Brahms, August 1882 [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 85

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