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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.

--Stewie.