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Love & Memory (Recited)
Album: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows (Deluxe)
Durasi: 3:45
[00:00.14]Love and Memory by John Clare
[00:05.47]Thou art gone the dark journey
[00:07.90]That leaves no returning
[00:11.66]'Tis fruitless to mourn thee
[00:14.90]But who can help mourning?
[00:17.47]To think of the life
[00:18.67]That did laugh on thy brow
[00:20.63]In the beautiful past
[00:22.75]Left so desolate now
[00:25.90]When youth seemed immortal
[00:28.38]So sweet did it weave
[00:31.03]Heaven's halo around thee
[00:34.71]Earth's hopes to deceive
[00:37.67]Thou fairest and dearest
[00:39.42]Where many were fair
[00:41.39]To my heart thou art nearest
[00:45.66]Though this name is but there
[00:50.38]The nearer the fountain
[00:51.47]More pure the stream flows
[00:53.94]And sweeter to fancy
[00:55.12]The bud of the rose
[00:57.64]And now thou'rt in heaven
[01:00.65]More pure is the birth
[01:03.23]Of thoughts that wake of thee
[01:05.79]Than aught upon Earth
[01:08.50]As a bud green in spring
[01:10.74]As a rose blown in June
[01:13.75]Thy beauty looked out
[01:15.29]And departed as soon
[01:18.69]Heaven saw thee too fair
[01:20.29]For earth's tenants of clay
[01:23.92]And ere age did thee wrong
[01:26.68]Thou wert summoned away
[01:31.68]I know thou art happy
[01:33.25]Why in grief need I be?
[01:35.92]Yet I am and the more so
[01:37.53]To feel it's for thee
[01:39.84]For thy presence possessed
[01:41.41]As thy absence destroyed
[01:43.97]The most that I loved
[01:45.72]And the all I enjoyed
[01:49.41]So I try to seek pleasure
[01:50.82]But vainly I try
[01:52.54]Now joy's cup is drained
[01:53.90]And hope's fountain is dry
[01:57.62]I mix with the living
[01:58.66]Yet what do I see?
[02:01.10]Only more cause for sorrow
[02:02.58]In losing of thee
[02:05.58]The year has its winter
[02:08.02]As well as its May
[02:10.06]So the sweetest must leave us
[02:11.73]And the fairest decay
[02:14.18]Suns leave us tonight
[02:16.33]And their light none may borrow
[02:19.06]So joy retreats from us
[02:21.41]Overtaken by sorrow
[02:24.66]The sun greets the spring
[02:25.98]And the blossom the bee
[02:28.30]The grass the blea hill
[02:29.97]And the leaf the bare tree
[02:33.06]But suns nor yet seasons
[02:35.25]As sweet as they be
[02:37.50]Shall ever more greet me
[02:39.49]With tidings of thee
[02:42.70]The voice of the cuckoo
[02:44.66]Is merry at noon
[02:47.08]And the song of the nightingale
[02:49.08]Gladdens the moon
[02:52.03]But the gayest today
[02:53.08]May be saddest tomorrow
[02:55.56]And the loudest in joy
[02:57.68]Sink the deepest in sorrow
[03:03.23]For the lovely in death
[03:04.43]And the fairest must die
[03:07.23]Fall once and forever
[03:08.60]Like stars from the sky
[03:12.15]So in vain do I mourn thee
[03:14.35]I know it's in vain
[03:16.83]Who would wish thee from joy
[03:18.44]To earth's troubles again?
[03:20.76]Yet thy love shed upon me
[03:24.56]Life more than mine own
[03:27.24]And now thou art from me
[03:29.35]My being is gone
[03:33.11]Words know not my grief
[03:35.27]Thus without thee to dwell
[03:38.63]Yet in one I felt all
[03:41.88]When life bade thee farewell
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