Lyr Req: Thread of Life / The Quilt (F Pucillo)

Subject: Lyr Req Help: Thread Of Life
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 07:12 PM

An oldtimer that sings for shut-ins and nursing homes is looking
for lyrics to a really old story song about a mother and dying daughter...

not much go go on...except the title...any help appreciated..

Gene

Subject: RE: Lyr Req Help: Thread Of Life
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 10:18 PM

Christina Rosetti has a poem by that title, and I found another song similar:

Christina Rosetti?
Or maybe:

Gentle Gentle (Life of your life)
By Rebecca Lavelle

Gentle gentle sing to your child
Your companion for such a long long time
Beneath your heart
Her heart beats strong
Life of your life
Is safe in your arms

Touch her face
You gave her form
Child of this earth
Child of the sky
You are her voice
She has your eyes
This is her gift
The thread of life

Give her grace
Give her peace
Let her be strong
Let her be kind
She is your soul
And you are her strength
Bless her and guide her all of her life

Gentle gentle sing to your child
Your companion for such a long long time
Beneath your heart
Her heart beats strong
Life of your life
Is safe in your arms

from:http://www.lyricsdownload.com/rebecca-lavelle-gentle-gentle-life-of-your-life-lyrics.html

Subject: ADD Poem: Thread Of Life (Rosetti)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 11:55 PM

Here's the poem Sorcha linked to:

The Thread of Life
(Christina Rosetti, 1830-1894)

1
The irresponsive silence of the land,
The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
Speak both one message of one sense to me: —
Aloof, aloof, we stand aloof, so stand
Thou too aloof bound with the flawless band
Of inner solitude; we bind not thee;
But who from thy self—chain shall set thee free?
What heart shall touch thy heart? what hand thy hand?—
And I am sometimes proud and sometimes meek,
And sometimes I remember days of old
When fellowship seemed not so far to seek
And all the world and I seemed much less cold,
And at the rainbow's foot lay surely gold,
And hope felt strong and life itself not weak.

2
Thus am I mine own prison. Everything
Around me free and sunny and at ease:
Or if in shadow, in a shade of trees
Which the sun kisses, where the gay birds sing
And where all winds make various murmuring;
Where bees are found, with honey for the bees;
Where sounds are music, and where silences
Are music of an unlike fashioning.
Then gaze I at the merrymaking crew,
And smile a moment and a moment sigh
Thinking: Why can I not rejoice with you ?
But soon I put the foolish fancy by:
I am not what I have nor what I do;
But what I was I am, I am even I.

3
Therefore myself is that one only thing
I hold to use or waste, to keep or give;
My sole possession every day I live,
And still mine own despite Time's winnowing.
Ever mine own, while moons and seasons bring
From crudeness ripeness mellow and sanative;
Ever mine own, till Death shall ply his sieve;
And still mine own, when saints break grave and sing.
And this myself as king unto my King
I give, to Him Who gave Himself for me;
Who gives Himself to me, and bids me sing
A sweet new song of His redeemed set free;
He bids me sing: O death, where is thy sting?
And sing: O grave, where is thy victory?


from poets.org

Subject: RE: Lyr Req Help: Thread Of Life
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 02:40 AM

Thanks to both of you...NFO forwarded to the requestor.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thread of Life
From: Gene
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 09:24 PM

unfortunately neither are the song the requestor was looking for

---says the story concerns a child and a quilt..the last line
referring to a thread of life...

thanks to all

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thread of Life
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Aug 07 - 09:39 PM

I did find this by adding quilt.....but I'm sort of losing hope on this one.

THE QUILT
Watch me as I stitch the cloth
Each patch a gift I give
Cradles you with all the warmth
For all the life you live

Each thread of life is special
The stitches strong will last
The love within my heart
Will share a sacred past

Watch me as I do this
So you can learn one day
To gather cloths of beauty
With memories to stay

Each story it will tell you
The softness you will feel
Every time you pick it up
Love's gentleness revealed

Then when I'm no longer here
Remember every stitch
Gathering the special times
Our love was so enriched

The pattern that I'm making
Love gathered so divine
Folded in your hope chest
My treasured love combined

~ Author: Francine Pucillo©2001-2003 ~

http://www.wrensworld.com/thequilt.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thread of Life
From: Gene
Date: 31 Aug 07 - 03:10 AM

Thanks Sorcha...will forward on...

someone just trying to reconnect with an old memory as I did
earlier this year....

a friend found a song I had been searching for -- for 60 years...