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Four Last Songs

Song Cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)


1. Procris

Language: English

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Procris is lying at the waterside
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2. Tired

Language: English

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Sleep, and I'll be still as another sleeper holding you in my arms
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3. Hands, eyes, and heart

Language: English

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Hands, give him all the measure of my love surer than any word
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4. Menelaus

Language: English

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You will come home, not to the home you knew that your thought remembers
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