A Light Exists in Spring/The Crocodile [Dickinson/Carroll poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 09/11/2019

A Light Exists in Spring
by Emily Dickinson

A G/E
A Light exists in Spring
Bm/A A
Not present on the Year
Em Bm7
At any other period —
A Em
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.
G Bm7
It waits upon the Lawn,
F#m Em
It shows the furthest Tree
G C G
Upon the furthest Slope you know
Em A
It almost speaks to you.
Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay —
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.
A: x0765x
G/E 0x543x
Bm/A: x0443x


The Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll
Em
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
Eb Abm
And pour the waters of the Nile
D7 Gm
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin!
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!

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