Arnold Bax - A Christmas Carol

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Arnold Bax - To Eire
To Thee, Beloved, of old there came The sailers of a thousand ships Who learned to love Thy hidden name And love the music on Thy lips; But some, who thought to build Thy

Arnold Bax - The Enchanted Fiddle
I come out of the west with the fiddle I stole from a Genoese ship; Lord! that was a treasure I captured When I gave the stranger the slip! I saw in the flower of the

Arnold Bax - A Milking Sian
Give up thy milk to her who calls Across the low green hills of Heaven And stream-cool meads of Paradise! Across the low green hills of Heaven How sweet to hear the milking

Arnold Bax - Roundel
Your yën two wol sle me sodenly I may the beaute of hem not sustene So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene And but your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that

Arnold Bax - I heard a Piper piping
I heard a piper piping The blue hills among — And never did I hear So plaintive a song It seemed but a part Of the hills’ melancholy: No piper living there

Arnold Bax - Across the Door
The fiddles were playing and playing The couples were out on the floor; From converse and dancing he drew me And across the door Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows

Arnold Bax - As I came over the grey, grey hills
As I came over the grey, grey hills And over the grey, grey water I saw the gilly leading on And the white Christ following after Where and where does the gilly lead?

Arnold Bax - The pigeons
Odalisques, odalisques Treading the pavement With feet pomegranate-stained: We bartered for, bought you Back in the years Ah, then we knew you Odalisques, odalisques

Arnold Bax - The Song in the Twilight
I have heard a music Strange and wild and tender Through the mystic splendour Of the twilight stealing Like the spell entracing of a magic potion Slowly it enwound me

Arnold Bax - Golden Guendolen
Twixt the sunlight and the shade Float up memories of my maid God remember Guendolen Gold or gems she did not wear But her yellow rippled hair Like a veil, hid