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wrens
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songs
or,
window;
The

Tennyson
Alfred
Sullivan,
Arthur

HARVARD COLLEGE
LIBRARY

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL
CLASS OF 1882
OF NEW YORK

1918

MUSIC LIBRARY

THE

WINDOW

, Sbongs of tfte WLxtns

THE

WINDOW

<&i\ ^itgs of tin

WORDS WRITTEN FOR MUSIC

By

ALFRED

TENNYSON

POET-LAUREATE

I'll H Ml'SIC BY
ARTHUR

STRAHAN

&

SULLIVAN

CO.,

56 LUJXtATF.

HILL,
1871

PUBLISHERS
LONDON

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VERT JANSEN WENDEU
il

LONDON :
PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO.,
CITY ROAD.

J70UR years ago Mr. Sullivan requested me to write a little songcycle, German fashion, for him to exercise his art upon.

He

had

been very successful in setting such old songs as " Orpheus with his
lute," and I drest up for him, partly in the old style, a puppet whose
almost only merit
instrument.

is, perhaps, that

it

can

dance to Mr. Sullivan's

I am sorry that my four-year-old puppet should have to

dance at all in the dark shadow of these days ; but the music is now
completed, and I am bound by my promise.
A. Tennyson.
December, 1870.

CONTENTS

ON THE HILL
" THE LIGHTS AND SHADOWS FLY."
AT THE WINDOW
" VINE, VINE AND EGLANTINE."
GONE!

No.
I

II

Ill
" GONE! GONE TILL THE END OF TILE YEAR."

WINTER

IV
" THE FROST IS HERE, AND FUEL IS DEAR."

SPRING

V
" BIRDS' LOVE AND BIRDS' SONG."

THE LETTER
" WHERE IS ANOTHER SWEET AS MY SWEET ? "
NO ANSWER
" THE MIST AND THE RAIN, THE MIST AND THE RAIN."
NO ANSWER
" WINDS ARE LOUD AND YOU ARE DUMB."

VI

VII

VIII

THE ANSWER
" TWO LITTLE HANDS THAT MEET."

IX

AY !

IX
" BE MERRY, ALL BIRDS, TO-DAY." t

WHEN ?

X
" SUN COMES, MOON COMES, TIME SLIPS AWAY."

MARRIAGE MORNING
" LIGHT SO LOW UPON EARTH."

* The Music was composed to an earlier version of this Song.

t This Song has not been set to Mustc.

XI

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ERRATA.
Page 6, first line, for " running down, running down," read " running
on, running on."
Page 25, last line, for " have a nest," read " in a nest."

 I.

The lights and shadows fly !

Yonder it brightens and darkens down on the plain.
A jewel, a jewel dear to a lover's eye !
is it the brook, or a pool, or her window-pane,
When the winds are up in the morning ?

Clouds that are racing above,

And winds and lights and shadows that cannot be still,
All running on one way to the home of my love,
You are all running on, and I stand on the slope of the hill,
And the winds are up in the morning !

Follow, follow the chase !

And my thoughts are as quick and as quick, ever on, on, on.
lights, are you flying over her sweet little face ?
And my heart is there before you are come and gone,
When the winds are up in the morning !

Follow them down the slope !

And I follow them down to the window-pane of my dear,
And it brightens and darkens and brightens like my hope,
And it darkens and brightens and darkens like my fear,
And the winds are up in the morning.

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Vine, vine and eglantine,

Clasp her window, trail and twine !
Rose, rose and clematis,
Trail and twine and clasp and kiss,
Kiss, kiss ; and make her a bower
All of flowers, and drop me a flower,
Drop me a flower.

Vine, vine and eglantine,

Cannot a flower, a flower, be mine ?
Rose, rose and clematis,
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Gone, and a cloud in my heart, and a storm in the air !
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To love once and for ever.

Men's love and birds' love,

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And you my wren with a crown of gold,
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You the Queen of the wrens
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Ask her to marry me by and by ?
Somebody said that she'd say no ;
Somebody knows that she'll say ay !

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Somebody said that she'd say no ;
Somebody knows that she'll say ay !

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Is it ay or no ?

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And never a glimpse of her window-pane !

And I may die but the grass will grow,
And the grass will grow when I am gone,
And the wet west wind and the world will go on.

Ay is the song of the wedded spheres,

No is trouble and cloud and storm,
Ay is life for a hundred years,
No will push me down to the worm,
And when I am there and dead and gone,
The wet west wind and the world will go on.

The wind and the wet, the wind and the wet !
Wet west wind, how you blow, you blow !
And never a line irom my lady yet !
Is it ay or no ?

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Winds are loud and you are dumb :

Take my love, for love will come,
Love will come but once a life.
Winds are loud and winds will pass
Spring is here with leaf and grass :
Take my love and be my wife.
After-loves of maids and men
Are but dainties drest again :
Love me now, you'll love me then :
Love can love but once a life.

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 IX.

Two little hands that meet,

Claspt on her seal, my sweet !
Must I take you and break you,
Two little hands that meet ?
I must take you, and break you,
And loving hands must part
Take, takebreak, break
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Faint heart never won
Break, break, and all's done.

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Be merry on earth as you never were merry before,
Be merry in heaven, larks, and far away,
And merry for ever and ever, and one day more.
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For it's easy to find a rhyme.

Look, look, how he flits,

The fire-crown'd king of the wrens, from out of the pine !
Look how they tumble the blossom, the mad little tits !
" Cuck-oo !

Cuck-oo !" was ever a May so fine ?

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For it's easy to find a rhyme.

merry the linnet and dove,

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merry my heart, you have gotten the wings of love,
And flit like the king of the wrens with a crown of fire.
Why?
For it's ay ay ay, ay ay.

 X.

Sun comes, moon comes,

Time slips away.
Sun sets, moon sets,
Love, fix a day.

" A year hence, a year hence."

" We shall both be gray."
" A month hence, a month hence."
" Far, far away."

" A week hence, a week hence."

" Ah, the long delay."
" Wait a little, wait a little,
You shall fix a day."

"To-morrow, love, to-morrow,

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Light, so low upon earth,

You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind,
Meadows in which we met !
Light, so low in the vale,
You flash and lighten afar :
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning star.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood :
lighten into my eyes and my heart,
Into my heart and my blood !
Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires ?
heart, are you great enough for love ?
I have heard of thorns and briers.
Over the thorns and briers,
Over the meadows and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
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