Tiny Eenanennika [DE LA MARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 25/04/2023

Tiny Eenanennika (Walter de la Mare)

D A
Tiny Eenanennika
Em A
Was like a little bird;
Bm Em
If the least whisper sounded,
Bm C
She heard, oh!, she heard!
D C
Claw or wing, in brush or brake,
F Am
However soft it stirred.

Tiny Eenanennika
Had bright gold hair;
Fair as a field of wheat,
Like sunshine, fair,
Like flame, like gilded water - oh,
Past words to declare!

G Bm
And every sing-song bird there is,
C D
Titmouse to wren,
Em Bm
In springtime, in nesting time,
C D
Would watch keep; and when
Am Em
She chanced to look the other way
F Am9
Would steal up, and then ---

Snip from her shining head
Just one hair or twain,
A gleaming, glistening shimmering thread,
And fly off again ---
A gossamer of glittering gold,
And flit off again.
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