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Author: Ursula Vaughan Williams, née Joan Ursula Penton Lock (1911-2007)

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Along the green banks by the waterside [x] *
B. Roe: The quarry

Choral: No sad thought (No sad thought his soul affright) - R. Vaughan Williams
Epitaph (What was your quarry, silver hound?) - B. Roe [x] *
From joy to fire - H. Boatwright [x]
From kingdoms of wisdom secret and far [x] *
R. Vaughan Williams: March of the Three Kings

Hands, eyes, and heart (Hands, give him all the measure of my love surer than any word ) - R. Vaughan Williams *
Hands, give him all the measure of my love surer than any word *
R. Vaughan Williams: Hands, eyes, and heart

He did not know his father was a tree [x] *
B. Roe: Man without myth

I am my own ghost now [x] *
B. Roe: The old man

I have served, so now I may command [x] *
B. Roe: The statesman

I was a cradled child [x] *
B. Roe: Lullaby

In old days, in stories that begin [x] *
B. Roe: Once upon a time

Look in the mirror, soldier, soldier [x] *
B. Roe: The soldier

Lullaby (I was a cradled child) - B. Roe [x] *
Man without myth (He did not know his father was a tree) - B. Roe [x] *
March of the Three Kings (From kingdoms of wisdom secret and far) - R. Vaughan Williams [x] *
Memory is my silver hound [x] *
B. Roe: Prologue

Menelaus (You will come home, not to the home you knew that your thought remembers) - R. Vaughan Williams *
My love has no measure [x] *
B. Roe: The lover

No sad thought his soul affright
R. Vaughan Williams: Choral: No sad thought

Once upon a time (In old days, in stories that begin) - B. Roe [x] *
Procris (Procris is lying at the waterside) - R. Vaughan Williams *
Procris is lying at the waterside *
R. Vaughan Williams: Procris

Prologue (Memory is my silver hound) - B. Roe [x] *
Sleep, and I'll be still as another sleeper holding you in my arms *
R. Vaughan Williams: Tired

The lover (My love has no measure) - B. Roe [x] *
The old man (I am my own ghost now) - B. Roe [x] *
The quarry (Along the green banks by the waterside) - B. Roe [x] *
The schoolboy (When learning came) - B. Roe [x] *
The soldier (Look in the mirror, soldier, soldier) - B. Roe [x] *
The statesman (I have served, so now I may command) - B. Roe [x] *
Tired (Sleep, and I'll be still as another sleeper holding you in my arms ) - R. Vaughan Williams *
What was your quarry, silver hound? [x] *
B. Roe: Epitaph

When learning came [x] *
B. Roe: The schoolboy

You will come home, not to the home you knew that your thought remembers *
R. Vaughan Williams: Menelaus