Supper/Master Rabbit [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2019-09-25

Supper (Walter de la Mare)

A 
Her pinched grey body,
E
In widow’s fur
D
Mousey daren’t
A E
From her wainscot stir;
Bm
Twitching nose.
F#m
And hollow ear,
D A
She stoops and listens,
Bm E
Stark with fear:
Bm 
There, like a tiger,
A E
Sleek and sly,
Bm
Grimalkin’s crouched
F#m C#7
With gloating eye,
D
Watching her door-
A Bm
While over the crumbs
D A
The dusk of deepening
C#7
Evening comes.

Master Rabbit

F#m
As I was walking,
Bm
Thyme sweet to my nose,
A
Green grasshoppers talking,
Bm
Rose rivalling rose:

F#m
Wings clear as amber,
Bm
Outspread in the light,
A
As from bush to bush
E
The Linnet took flight:

A9 Em
Master Rabbit I saw
C Em
In the shadow-rimmed mouth
D C
Of his sandy cavern
D Em
Looking out to the South.

‘Twas dew-tide coming,
The turf was sweet
To nostril, curved tooth,
And wool-soft feet.

Sun was in West,
Crystal in beam
Of its golden shower
Did his round eye gleam.

Lank horror was I,
And a foe, poor soul - 
Snowy flit of a scut,
He was into his hole:

C
And - stamp, stamp, stamp
Em
Through dim labyrinths clear - 
D 
The whole world darkened:
A9
A Human near!


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