Scents (Thomas, set by I. Gurney) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Today I think only of scents
 Scents dead leaves yield
 Bracken wild carrot seed and the square mustard field
 Scents that arise when the spade wounds the roots of tree,
 rose currant raspberry gout weed
 Rhubarb
 Celery
 The smoke's smell too blowing from where the bonfire burns the waste
 The dead the dangerous and all to sweetness turns
 It is enough to smell to crumble the dark earth
 While the Robin sings over again sad songs of winter mirth

Input by David Kenneth Smith

Authorship

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

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Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

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