| Song | Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning. Dvorak - Symphony No.9 2nd Movement (excerpt). |
| Artist | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Album | Words For You |
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| [00:08.09] | O, TO be in England |
| [00:10.27] | Now that April's there, |
| [00:12.66] | And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, |
| [00:17.10] | That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf |
| [00:19.98] | Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, |
| [00:22.67] | While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough |
| [00:26.32] | In England—now! |
| [00:29.61] | And after April, when May follows, |
| [00:32.08] | And the white throat builds, and all the swallows! |
| [00:35.43] | Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge |
| [00:38.17] | Leans to the field and scatters on the clover |
| [00:40.90] | Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge |
| [00:45.95] | That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, |
| [00:50.71] | Lest you should think he never could recapture |
| [00:53.18] | The first fine careless rapture! |
| [00:58.45] | And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, |
| [01:01.33] | All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, |
| [01:05.89] | the little children's dower |
| [01:08.67] | Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! |
| [00:08.09] | O, TO be in England |
| [00:10.27] | Now that April' s there, |
| [00:12.66] | And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, |
| [00:17.10] | That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf |
| [00:19.98] | Round the elmtree bole are in tiny leaf, |
| [00:22.67] | While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough |
| [00:26.32] | In England now! |
| [00:29.61] | And after April, when May follows, |
| [00:32.08] | And the white throat builds, and all the swallows! |
| [00:35.43] | Hark, where my blossom' d peartree in the hedge |
| [00:38.17] | Leans to the field and scatters on the clover |
| [00:40.90] | Blossoms and dewdrops at the bent spray' s edge |
| [00:45.95] | That' s the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, |
| [00:50.71] | Lest you should think he never could recapture |
| [00:53.18] | The first fine careless rapture! |
| [00:58.45] | And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, |
| [01:01.33] | All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, |
| [01:05.89] | the little children' s dower |
| [01:08.67] | Far brighter than this gaudy melonflower! |
| [00:08.09] | O, TO be in England |
| [00:10.27] | Now that April' s there, |
| [00:12.66] | And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning, unaware, |
| [00:17.10] | That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf |
| [00:19.98] | Round the elmtree bole are in tiny leaf, |
| [00:22.67] | While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough |
| [00:26.32] | In England now! |
| [00:29.61] | And after April, when May follows, |
| [00:32.08] | And the white throat builds, and all the swallows! |
| [00:35.43] | Hark, where my blossom' d peartree in the hedge |
| [00:38.17] | Leans to the field and scatters on the clover |
| [00:40.90] | Blossoms and dewdrops at the bent spray' s edge |
| [00:45.95] | That' s the wise thrush he sings each song twice over, |
| [00:50.71] | Lest you should think he never could recapture |
| [00:53.18] | The first fine careless rapture! |
| [00:58.45] | And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, |
| [01:01.33] | All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, |
| [01:05.89] | the little children' s dower |
| [01:08.67] | Far brighter than this gaudy melonflower! |