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Before and After Summer Lyrics by Gerald Finzi

Before and After Summer, Op. 16

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Looking forward to the spring
One puts up with anything
On this February day
Though the winds leap down the street
Wintry scourgings seem but play
And these later shafts of sleet
- Sharper pointed than the first -
And these later snows - the worst -
Are as a half-transparent blind
Riddled by rays from sun behind
Shadows of the October pine
Reach into this room of mine:
On the pine there stands a bird;
He is shadowed with the tree
Mutely perched he bills no word;
Blank as I am even is he
For those happy suns are past
Fore-discerned in winter last
When went by their pleasure, then?
I, alas, perceived not when
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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Finzi

About “Before and After Summer” by Gerald Finzi

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"Before and After Summer" appears on "Before and After Summer, Op. 16".

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