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Thread #12670   Message #101461
Posted By: Murray on Saltspring
02-Aug-99 - 02:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Silent Worship (Somervell, Handel)
Subject: RE: Silent Worship
No, it's not quite accurate. I can't remember it all, but it's something like this:

Silent Worship

Did you not see my lady
Go down the garden singing
Blackbird and thrush were silent
To hear the alleys ringing
Oh saw you not my lady
Out in the garden there
Shaming the rose and lily
For she is twice as fair.

Though I am nothing to her
Though she but rarely looks at me
And though I could never woo her
I love her till I die.

Did you not see my lady
Go down the garden singing,
Silencing all the songbirds,
And setting the alleys ringing;
Oh surely you see my lady
Out in the garden there
Riv'ling the glitt'ring sunshine
With a glory of golden hair.

--This may prompt someone else's memory.