The Water Midden's Song/Envoy [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 09/09/2022

The Water Midden's Song (Walter de la Mare)
Am
"Bubble, Bubble, 
G
Swim to see 
Dm Em
Oh, how beautiful 
Am
I be. 

G
"Fishes, Fishes, 
Am
Finned and fine, 
C G
What's your gold 
E7
Compared with mine? 

"Why, then, has 
Wise Tishnar made 
One so lovely, 
Yet so sad? 

"Lone am I, 
And can but make 
A little song, 
For singing's sake."

Envoy
Ab Eb Ab Cm
Long - long is Time, though books be brief;
Bb Fm
Adventures strange - ay, past belief - 
Cm D7
Await the Reader's drowsy eye;
Gm F A7
But, wearied out, he'd lay them by.

Dm C
But, if so be, he's some day hear
Eb F Gm
All that befell these brothers dear
Cm Bb
In Tishnar's lovely Valleys - well,
Cm D7
Poor pen, thou must that story tell!

Ab Eb
But farewell, now, you Mulgars three!
Ab Cm
Farewell, your faithful company!
Fm Cm
Farewell, the heart that loved unbidden - 
Bb D7
Nod's dark-eyed, beauteous Water-midden!


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