My delight and thy delight

My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:
My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
Leaping live, and laughing higher;
Thro' the everlasting strife
In the mystery of life.
Love, from whom the world begun, 
Hath the secret of the sun. 

Love can tell, and love alone, 
Whence the million stars were strewn, 
Why each atom knows its own, 
How, in spite of woe and death, 
Gay is life, and sweet is breath : 
This he taught us, this we knew, 
Happy in his science true,
Hand in hand as we stood
Neath the shadows of the wood,
Heart to heart as we lay 
In the dawning of the day.

by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) , no title, from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume II, published 1899

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "My delight and thy delight" [voice and piano]
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "My delight and thy delight", published 1909 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Six Partsongs, no. ?
by Arthur Battelle Whiting (1861-1936) , "My delight and thy delight", published 1903. [soprano and tenor duet with piano]

Date added to the website: 2009-02-04.

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