Love's Waterfall

Text Source

Lyrics by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) (Original title: Song, changed by Don for this composition)

Music

Music by Don "Orfeo" Rechtman

Instrumentation

Voice, piano

Love's Waterfall by Don "Orfeo" Rechtman (2020)
is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
    (This means you can perform it non-commercially or commercially without having to pay royalties, but you are required to acknowledge its authorship and where you got it. You cannot modify it without written permission from Don "Orfeo" Rechtman.)

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Notes

This is Don's first art song, written in 1982, commissioned by Don Clark for his friend Belita.

How many times do I love thee, dear?
   Tell me how many thoughts there be
   In the atmosphere
   Of a new-fall'n year,
Whose white and sable hours appear
   The latest flake of Eternity:
So many times do I love thee, dear.

How many times do I love again?
   Tell me how many beads there are
   In a silver chain
   Of evening rain,
Unravell'd from the tumbling main,
   And threading the eye of a yellow star:
So many times do I love again.