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Fair Ones
03:47
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To a shining golden lake-wood,
Have I journeyed for a time
And though zealous were its people,
So were its great halls sublime.
Through oak forest and green briar
Have I made my merry way
Winking back at shadowed sunlight,
Wishing I could ever stay.
In a fen of mist and flowers
Have I dallied for a day
Calling back to frogs and crickets,
Calling fishers out to play.
Near a hundred stony ruins
Have I seen in but a year,
Yet, for every bailey's downfall
Could I shed a rueful tear.
Among quiet marble cloisters
Have I passed a happy hour,
In serene and knowing labyrinths,
In a many-window'd tower.
To the grim and looming towers
Of a city grey as gloom
Have I been astounded witness,
As the streets of magic bloom.
Under thrall of roaring thunder,
Blinking hot rain from my eyes,
Have I seen the lightning turn
Each drop to diamond in the skies.
Far away, beneath the surface
Of the green and rambling ground
Have I marveled in deep darkness
At its vast and silent sound.
I have traveled many places,
Far away and near to home
And the ones that still surprise me are the rare ones.
Of the places that I've traveled,
Home will beckon most of all,
And yet it seems a shame to leave the fair ones.
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Ride
02:39
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Ride! Bring your comrades here and gather all your kith and your kin!
Send the call out to mother and father and child.
Ride! Bring your enemies and allies of your cause, bring them in
From the ends of the earth, come from city and the wild
And call leaders and followers and all their blood
Bring the rich and the poor and the high and the low
Send for lovers and fighters, the path shall be flooded
With crowds on their course, everyone that you know!
Come to the gathering,
The time is now, one and all
The time for everything
And more, so send out the call.
Ride! Send for everyone, the time is short, the distance is far
Go to mountain and river and forest and plain.
Ride! Bring them any way you can, bring them in peace or at war
Brave the heat and the sun, or the wind and the rain.
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Worry Song
02:05
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The lark in the sky will chatter at the jay
The cat in the hall may wake another day
The cow in the barn can eat her fill of hay
The dog in the yard will frolic if he may
But who’ll banish all my cares away?
The ox at the toll has not a coin to pay
The fish in the sea might gambol in the spray
The sun in the sky lets down a shining ray
The lamb in the field will totter in his play
But who’ll banish all my cares away?
The horse on the road can whicker, snort or neigh
The stone-stubborn donkey bellows out a bray
The peacock may fan his tail in fine array
The rooster is king of all he might survey
But who’ll banish all my cares away?
The cloud up on high shows silver, white or grey
The end of the spring will come in June or May
The wheel of the potter gathers all the clay
The friend takes his leave with little left to say
But who’ll banish all my cares away?
The end of the hem will soon begin to fray
The welcome will fade if I might only stay
The leaves fall to earth and hasten their decay
The death comes to all tomorrow or today
But who’ll banish all my cares away?
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Wedding Song
01:19
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Howl and shout
Let all pens write down
They are joined together!
This one and that one
Their hearts desire
To press two into one
Eye to eye
They are true
Spirits like the wind and sun
Sing a new feat of heart-song
Bind them together, blessed
This one and that one
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A Certainty
00:45
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The kinder his words, the sharper his wit,
The quicker his hands, the brighter my flame is lit.
The more he reveals, the warmer his arms,
The deeper he feels, the greater I find his charms.
The straighter his gaze, the sweeter his eyes,
The fonder his glance, the higher my heart will rise.
The longer he stays, the harder I fall.
The better he plays, the more he gives life his all.
The harder their blows, the gentler his touch.
The more hurt he shows, the surer his step. As much
As I feel his pain, he hides it awhile.
The more I suspect, the instant he makes me smile.
So perfect is he, I know that, again,
The more I love him, the more certain he likes men.
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How Strange
01:49
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How strange, how strange a song
That flies within my heart:
A fiery, icy tune
In which I have no part,
No instrument to play.
It burns when I am here,
But freezes when I leave.
The sting is hard to bear;
Its purpose, to bereave
At night and in the day.
Alas. No cure is known
For this feverish plague:
It bothers me alone,
A fierce and painful ague
That carries me away.
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Road Song
01:32
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The way is long and winding, the feet fair tired and sore,
The road's end never finding, for roads have ends no more,
But go you ever forward and see what lies there in store:
For what you find before you is what you have found before.
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Green Hazel
02:18
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O gather green hazel from under the tree
The taste of the nut is a pleasure so dear
And to lie in the shade of an afternoon free
Is the sweetest of life any time of the year.
O simmer green hazel, to make a strong brew
And stir it so gently no drop splashes out
Or tincture of hazel shall only stir you
And all your fine plans pass you by with a shout.
O turn the green hazel the thatch for to lay
And set it in tight with a shove and a prod
Thereby under the thatch all the better to play
Such joy may we have of a green hazel rod.
O garland green hazel for crowns in the spring
Braid catkins in sunlight and deck ev'ry room
So murmurs and songs from each valley shall ring:
The springtime is coming, green hazel's in bloom!
Tra la the green hazel I sing for to praise,
So strong and so fair a green tree!
Green hazel may bend any number of ways
O bend the green hazel to me!
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Alaiah
01:26
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The lady of ice and black stone, of blue gems,
The gilded dark lady with the moon in her eye:
Her glance has a price. She may pierce with her fiery cold gaze,
Her face a silver, cold star-stone.
Ah!
A fair, frosted torch, she will gather her nation's hearts
And them charmed willingly from their breasts,
But even if she treads carefully, they languish adoring her
And wither, if she treats them coldly.
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Warleigh Weir
02:16
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I care not for the pretty joys
Of busy Bath, its ancient noise
Or crescents grand and wide.
But for those Theatre Royal there employs
I loved that city more
Than ever children loved their dearest toys.
I lived a year in one fine day
And learned a lifetime from one play
With laughter, tears and sighs
And one fine player heard what I would say
With warm and gentle grace,
Before the evening sent us all away.
Oh, delight of a perfect day!
I could not leave the day behind
Nor put it from my happy mind
And so I spent another
At the same performance, there to find
Again I came under the spell
Of potent words said truly well
And once more sought to speak
With one whose skill onstage no man can tell,
Who smiled with lively kindness
And then crowned the day none could excel.
He told me of a winding way
Between the cows who champed their hay
And down the valley floor
Where River Avon fell in winsome spray
And where the people went
The waters there to wade in, swim and play
Oh, delight of a perfect day!
And so I took his cousel wise
And took my leave with teary eyes
And set forth for to find
The cool and shaded weir, the final prize
Of this day wound with wonders
All was clear as I beheld the rise
Through thistles I did gladly stray
And nettles prickled through the clay
I hardly paid them heed
As they were soon behind me on my way
And all was brightest bliss
The words and water I cannot repay.
Oh, delight of a perfect day!
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Green Grows A Leaf
04:34
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Green grows a leaf on the fallen tree
Green rise the grasses for all to see
Green creeps the moss, green sways the reed
Green sleeps the heart of every living, waiting seed
Bright glow the leaves under lowering cloud
As thunder speaks the light aloud
Sweeping curtains wash the air anew
And now each leaf wears jeweled crowns of glimm'ring dew
Cool mist covers all the green in pearl
Gilt and silver play in each curl
Of rolling white as the gloaming comes
And a crescent gleams as the dusk fades and the deep night hums
Now rises all the golden light
Searing out the lingering white
Limning all the green in gold
And showing radiance in each new leaf to unfold
This noontide all the air is still
The river's risen waters spill
Past their banks with a dreaming song
And the drowsing birds take flight from river's edge and sing along
Green grows a leaf on the fallen tree
Green rise the grasses for all to see
Green creeps the moss, green sways the reed
Green sleeps the heart of every living, waiting seed
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Rion Sanura Houston, Texas
A thing singer, singer of things
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