Little Delving
Beyond Here There Be Dragons
Spring time and Yeats
May 15, 2006 08:57 PM Filed in:
Day To Day
Of
youth and love, memories and regret, and lessons learned.
Down By The Sally Gardens, W. B. Yeats;
Music by Ivor Gurney; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Tenor
Down by the salley gardens
My love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens
With little snow-white feet.
She bid me take life easy,
As the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish,
With her would not agree.
In a field by the river
My love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder
She laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy,
As the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
And now am full of tears.
Down By The Sally Gardens, W. B. Yeats;
Music by Ivor Gurney; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Tenor
Down by the salley gardens
My love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens
With little snow-white feet.
She bid me take life easy,
As the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish,
With her would not agree.
In a field by the river
My love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder
She laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy,
As the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish,
And now am full of tears.