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 | |
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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 | |
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Name: | DEVOTION |
Meter: | L.M. |
Key: | A Major |
Source: | A. D. Carden's Missouri Harmony, 1820 |