Misericordia!/Bitter Waters [DA LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2020-01-15

MISERICORDIA!  (Walter de la Mare)

D G/B
Misericordia! 
Em/A A
Weep with me. 
D G/B
Waneth the dusk light ; 
Em/A F#m/A
Strange the tree ; 
Bm7 F#m
In regions barbarous 
G A
Lost are we. 

I, Glycera, 
And Silas here, 
Who hath hid in sleep 
His eyes from fear; 
Wan-wide are mine 
With a tear. 

Misericordia ! 
Was I born 
Only to pluck 
Disaster's thorn? 
Only to stray 
Forlorn ? 

G/B: x2x03x
Em/A: x0434x
F#m/A: x0656x


BITTER WATERS 

Am D
In a dense wood, a drear wood, 
Am - G Am
Dark water is flowing ; 
Em Am
Deep, deep, beyond sounding, 
G Am
A flood ever flowing. 

Em D C G
There harbours no wild bird, 
B7
No wanderer stays there ; 
G D Am Em
Wreathed in mist, sheds pale Ishtar 
F Am
Her sorrowful rays there. 

Take thy net; cast thy line ; 
Manna sweet be thy baiting ; 
Time's desolate ages 
Shall still find thee waiting 

For quick fish to rise there, 
Or butterfly wooing,
 Or flower's honeyed beauty, 
Or wood-pigeon cooing. 

Inland wellsprings are sweet ; 
But to lips, parched and dry, 
Salt, salt is the savour 
Of these; faint their sigh. 

Bitter Babylon's waters. 
Zion, distant and fair. 
We hanged up our harps 
On the trees that are there. 

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