If I Can Stop/Goodbye (DICKINSON/DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 30/06/2020

If I Can Stop  (Emily Dickinson)

Am Em F Dm
If I can stop one heart from breaking, 
Em Am C G
I shall not live in vain;
F Bb C Dm
If I can ease one life the aching,
Gm F C
Or cool one pain,

Dm F
Or help one fainting robin 
A7 Dm
Unto his nest again,
F C E7
I shall not live in vain.


Goodbye (Walter de la Mare)

D46 Cmaj7 D46 Cmaj7
The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye -
D46 Cmaj7 D46 Cmaj7
The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge,
F#m Em F#m Em
The last thin rumour of a feeble bell far ringing,
G A D46 Cmaj7
The last blind rat to spurn the mildewed rye.

A hardening darkness glasses the haunted eye,
Shines into nothing the watcher's burnt-out candle,
Wreathes into scentless nothing the wasting incense,
Faints in the outer silence the hunting-cry.

D A
Love of its muted music breathes no sigh,
Em A
Thought in her ivory tower gropes in her spinning,
D Em
Toss on in vain the whispering trees of Eden,
G A
Last of all last words spoken is, Good-bye.


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