Bendemeer's Stream - 1942

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

There's a bower of roses
by Bendemeer's stream,
And the nightingale sings round
it all the day long;
In the time of my childhood
'twas like a sweet dream,
To sit mid the roses
and hear the birds' song.
That bow'r and its music
I never forget,
But oft when alone
in the bloom of the year,
I think is the nightingale
singing there yet?
Are the roses still bright
by the calm Bendemeer?

Now the roses soon withered
that hung o'er the wave,
But some blossoms were gathered
while freshly they shone,
And a dew was distilled
from the flowers that gave,
All the fragrance of summer
when summer had gone.
Thus memory draws from delight 'ere it dies,
An essence that breathes of it many a year,
Thus dear to my soul
as 'twas then to my eyes
Is that bow'r by the banks
of the calm Bendemeer.

Soft karaoke
Words
synth str 1 treble
synth str 1 bass
synth str 1 mid range
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Lyric Line
brass
pizz str
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Bendemeer's Stream 1942
Irish Air arr. by Philip Dale
Words by Thomas More
copyright MCMXLII by Allan and Co. Pty. Ltd., Melbourne
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Sunday 23 Dec 2001 at 23.47
in association with Doug Grierson
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