Who Really?/The Grey Wolf/No Jewel [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2023-03-11

Who Really? [Walter de la Mare]

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When Winter's o'er, the Bear once more
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Rolls from his hollow tree
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And pokes about, and in and out,
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Where dwells the honey-bee.
Then all the little creatures go,
And to their queen they say:
'Here's that old Bruin, hark, what's he doing,
Let's drive that beast away!'
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Old Bruin smiles, and smooths his hair
Over a sticky nose;
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'That Thieves should hate a Thief,' he smirks,
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'Who really would suppose!'

The Grey Wolf

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'A fagot, a fagot, go fetch for the fire, son!'
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'O, Mother, the wolf looks in at the door!'
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'Cry Shoo! now, cry Shoo! thou fierce grey wolf, fly, now;
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Haste thee away, he will fright thee no more.'

'I ran, O, I ran but the grey wolf ran faster,
O, Mother, I cry in the air at thy door,
Cry Shoo!, now, cry Shoo! but his fangs were so cruel,
Thy son (save his hatchet) thou'lt never see more.'

No Jewel

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No jewel from the rock
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Is lovely as the dew,
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Flashing with flamelike red
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With sea-like blue.

No web the merchant weaves
Can rival hers -
The silk the spider spins
Across the furze.




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