Kiri Te Kanawa - Sir William Walton. Daphne | Текст песни

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Daphne

When green as a river was the barley,
Green as a river th rye,
I waded deep and began to parley
With a youth whom I heard sigh,
"I seek", said he, "a lovely lady,
A nymph as bright as a queen,
Like a tree that drips with pearls her shady
Locks of hair were seen;
And all the rivers became her flocks
Though their wool you cannot shear,
Because of the love fo her flowing locks.
The kingly sun like a swain
Came strong, unheeding of her scorn,
Wading in deeps where she had lain,
Seeping upon her river lawn
And chasing her starry satyr train.
She fled, and changed into a tree, --
That lovely fair-haired lady . . .
And now I seek through the sere summer
Where no trees are shady!"

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