Jake Heggie - Euclid

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Jake Heggie - The Haughty Snail-King
Twelve snails went walking after night They'd creep an inch or so Then stop and bug their eyes And blow Some folks . . . are . . . deadly . . . slow Twelve snails went

Jake Heggie - Euclid
Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and of

Jake Heggie - The Sun Kept Setting
The Sun kept setting -- setting -- still No Hue of Afternoon -- Upon the Village I perceived From House to House 'twas Noon The Dusk kept dropping -- dropping --

Jake Heggie - That I Did Always Love
That I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived — Enough — That I shall love alway — I argue thee That love is life — And life hath

Jake Heggie - Bird Soul
If birds are human souls What bird are you? A spring bird with a joyful song? A high flyer? Are you an evening bird Watching the moon Singing alone, alone

Jake Heggie - Because I Liked You Better
Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say It irked you, and I promised To throw the thought away To put the world between us We parted, stiff and dry;

Jake Heggie - The Factory Window Song
Factory windows are always broken Somebody's always throwing bricks Somebody's always heaving cinders Playing ugly Yahoo tricks Factory windows are always broken

Jake Heggie - In Praise of Songs That Die
Ah, they are passing, passing by Wonderful songs, but born to die! Cries from the infinite human seas Waves thrice-winged with harmonies Here I stand on a pier in the foam

Jake Heggie - The Farms of Home
The farms of home lie lost in even I see far off the steeple stand; West and away from here to heaven Still is the land There if I go no girl will greet me No comrade

Jake Heggie - What if I say I shall not wait!
What if I say I shall not wait? What if I burst the fleshly gate And pass, escaped, to thee? What if I file this mortal off See where it hurt me, - that's enough, -