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Thread #99166 Message #1979109
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Feb-07 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Duchess Tree
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DUCHESS TREE
The key to finding this one was searching for "Round Gordon Castle the woods are green," not "...Gordon's...."
THE DUCHESS TREE From the Logie Collection (1888), words by W.M. key of Ab
Round Gordon Castle the woods are green, And the flow'rs are fair to see; And dear is the shade of the leafy screen, When we meet by the Duchess Tree.
When my heart is stirred at the whisper'd word Of the voice so dear to me; And the rustling leaf and the warbling bird Sound sweet in the Duchess Tree.
Let the gay lamp gleam on the glowing dance, In the halls that ring with glee; Far sweeter tome is the moonbeam's glance Through the boughs of the Duchess Tree.
Like the queen of the glade, it stands arrayed In the pride of high degree; And long may the axe and the woodman's blade, Spare the boughs of the Duchess Tree.
Blest be the hour in a day that is dead, When its shoot first waved on the lea; And blest be the hand that reared and spread The bower of the Duchess Tree.
The world is cold like its great god, gold, And life is a stormy sea; But there's peace and rest, where the green boughs fold Like a robe round the Duchess Tree.