333. Alone She Cuts and Binds the Grain

1 Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
and sings a melancholy strain:
O listen! for the vale profound
is overflowing with the sound.

2 Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy far-off things,
and for the battles long ago.

3 Or is it some more humble lay,
familiar matter of today?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
that once has been, may be again?

4 I listened, motionless and still,
and, as I mounted up the hill,
the music in my heart I bore
long after it was heard no more.

Text Information
First Line: Alone she cuts and binds the grain
Title: Alone She Cuts and Binds the Grain
Author: William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
Meter: L.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1993
Topic: Humanist Teachings: Insight and Wisdom; The Arts; Labor (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: DEVOTION
Meter: L.M.
Key: A Major
Source: A. D. Carden's Missouri Harmony, 1820



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