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arnold bax - enchanted summer lyrics

(semichorus 1)
the path through which that lovely twain
have passed, by cedar, pine, and yew
and each dark tree that ever grew
is curtained out from heaven’s wide blue;
nor sun, nor moon, nor wind, nor rain
can pierce its interwoven bowers
nor aught, save where some cloud of dew
drifted along the earth+creeping breeze
between the trunks of the h++r trees
hangs each a pearl in the pale flowers
of the green laurel, blown anew
and bеnds, and then fades silently
onе frail and fair anemone:
or when some star of many a one
that climbs and wanders through steep night
has found the cleft through which alone
beams fall from high those depths upon
ere it is borne away, away
by the swift heavens that cannot stay
it scatters drops of golden light
like lines of rain that ne’er unite:
and the gloom divine is all around
and underneath is the mossy ground

(semichorus 2)
there the voluptuous nightingales
are awake through all the broad noonday
when one with bliss or sadness fails
and through the windless ivy+boughs
sick with sweet love, droops dying away
on its mate’s music+panting bosom;
another from the swinging blossom
watching to catch the languid close
of the last strain, then lifts on high
the wings of the weak melody
till some new strain of feeling bear
the song, and all the woods are mute;
when there is heard through the dim air
the rush of wings, and rising there
like many a lake+surrounded flute
sounds overflow the listener’s brain
so sweet, that joy is almost pain
(semichorus 1)
there those enchanted eddies play
of echoes, music+tongued, which draw
by demogorgon’s mighty law
with melting rapture, or sweet awe
all spirits on that secret way;
as inland boats are driven to ocean
down streams made strong with mountain+thaw:
and first there comes a gentle sound
to those in talk or slumber bound
and wakes the destined soft emotion?
attracts, impels them; those who saw
say from the breathing earth behind
there steams a plume+uplifting wind
which drives them on their path, while they
believe their own swift wings and feet
the sweet desires within obey:
and so they float upon their way
until, still sweet, but loud and strong
the storm of sound is driven along
sucked up and hurrying: as they fleet
behind, its gathering billows meet
and to the fatal mountain bear
like clouds amid the yielding air

(faun 1)
canst thou imagine where those spirits live
which make such delicate music in the woods?
we haunt within the least frequented caves
and closest coverts, and we know these wilds
yet never meet them, though we hear them oft:
where may they hide themselves?
(faun 2)
’tis hard to tell;
i have heard those more sk!lled in spirits say
the bubbles, which the enchantment of the sun
sucks from the pale faint water+flowers that pave
the oozy bottom of clear lakes and pools
are the pavilions where such dwell and float
under the green and golden atmosphere
which noontide kindles through the woven leaves;
and when these burst, and the thin fiery air
the which they breathed within those lucent domes
ascends to flow like meteors through the night
they ride on them, and rein their headlong speed
and bow their burning crests, and glide in fire
under the waters of the earth again

(faun 1)
if such live thus, have others other lives
under pink blossoms or within the bells
of meadow flowers, or folded violets deep
or on their dying odours, when they die
or in the sunlight of the sphered dew?

(faun 2)
ay, many more which we may well divine
but should we stay to speak, noontide would come
and thwart silenus find his goats undrawn
and grudge to sing those wise and lovely songs
of fate, and chance, and god, and chaos old
and love, and the chained titan’s woful doom
and how he shall be loosed, and make the earth
one brotherhood: delightful strains which cheer
our solitary twilights, and which charm
to silence the unenvying nightingales

- arnold bax lyrics

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