Melmillo [DE LA MARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 12/09/2018

Melmillo - Poem by Walter de la Mare


Em7
Three and thirty birds there stood 
Em7
In an elder in a wood; 
Dm7 Em7 
Called Melmillo -- flew off three, 
Am Em7
Leaving thirty in the tree; 
F Em7
Called Melmillo -- nine now gone, 
Am G
And the boughs held twenty-one; 
Ab Bb 
Called Melmillo -- and eighteen 
Cm
Left but three to nod and preen; 
Dm7
Called Melmillo -- three--two--one-- 
F C Dm7
Now of birds were feathers none. 

Then stole slim Melmillo in 
To that wood all dusk and green, 
And with lean long palms outspread 
Softly a strange dance did tread; 
Not a note of music she 
Had for echoing company; 
All the birds were flown to rest 
In the hollow of her breast; 
In the wood -- thorn, elder willow -- 
Danced alone -- lone danced Melmillo. 

Walter de la Mare

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