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Thread #68339 Message #1150441
Posted By: Stewie
30-Mar-04 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: ADD:I Saw Her As She Came And Went (Bayard Rustin)
Subject: Lyr Add: I SAW HER AS SHE CAME AND WENT (B Rustin)
Here you go, R-J. My copy of 'And So Will We Yet' appears to be disintegrating with paint peeling off the disk. However, 'I saw her' can still be read by the laser:
I SAW HER AS SHE CAME AND WENT
I saw her as she came and went I saw her queenly, meek and mild As innocent as any child A flower among her flowers Among her flowers content
I come again and in her place A silence and a vacant room And in my heart a sudden gloom That I no more shall see No more shall see her face
There was a word I might have said But what it was I do not know I let the days fly by and now Now I must say it to Must say it to her dead
Source: transcription from Bok, Muir and Trickett 'And So Will We Yet' Folk Legacy CD-116.