The Window/Poor Henry [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-08-16

The Window (Walter de la Mare)

G Gmaj7 Em D
Behind the blinds I sit and watch
G Gmaj7 Em D
The people passing - passing by;
C Bm Em
And not a single-one can see
Bm7 Am7
My tiny watching eye

They cannot see my little room,
All yellowed with the shaded sun,
They do not even know I'm here;
Nor'll guess when I am gone.

Poor Henry

    By Walter De La Mare

A
    Thick in its glass
A
        The physic stands,
A
    Poor Henry lifts
E7
        Distracted hands;
D7
    His round cheek wans
Em
        In the candlelight,
C G
    To smell that smell!
A7
        To see that sight!

    Finger and thumb
        Clinch his small nose,
    A gurgle, a gasp,
        And down it goes;
    Scowls Henry now;
        But mark that cheek,
    Sleek with the bloom
        Of health next week!


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