lirik lagu tim graham - alfred lord tennyson - lady clare
it was the time when lilies blow
and clouds are highest up in air
lord ronald brought a lily~white doe
to give his cousin lady clare
i trow they did not part in scorn:
lovers long~betroth’d were they:
they two will wed the morrow morn!
god’s blessing on the day!
“he does not love me for my birth
nor for my lands so broad and fair;
he loves me for my own true worth
and that is well,” said lady clare
in there came old alice the nurse
said, “who was this that went from thee?”
“it was my cousin,” said lady clare
“to~morrow he weds with me.”
“o god be thank’d!” said alice the nurse
“that all comes round so just and fair:
lord ronald is heir of all your lands
and you are not the lady clare.”
“are ye out of your mind, my nurse, my nurse?”
said lady clare, “that ye speak so wild”;
“as god’s above,” said alice the nurse
“i speak the truth: you are my child
“the old earl’s daughter died at my breast;
i speak the truth, as i live by bread!
i buried her like my own sweet child
and put my child in her stead.”
“falsely, falsely have ye done
o mother,” she said, “if this be true
to keep the best man under the sun
so many years from his due.”
“nay now, my child,” said alice the nurse
“but keep the secret for your life
and all you have will be lord ronald’s
when you are man and wife.”
“if i’m a beggar born,” she said
“i will speak out, for i dare not lie
pull off, pull off, the broach of gold
and fling the diamond necklace by.”
“nay now, my child,” said alice the nurse
“but keep the secret all ye can.”
she said, “not so: but i will know
if there be any faith in man”
“nay now, what faith?” said alice the nurse
“the man will cleave unto his right.”
“and he shall have it,” the lady replied
“tho’ i should die to~night.”
“yet give one kiss to your mother dear!
alas, my child, i sinn’d for thee.”
“o mother, mother, mother,” she said
“so strange it seems to me
“yet here’s a kiss for my mother dear
my mother dear, if this be so
and lay your hand upon my head
and bless me, mother, ere i go.”
she clad herself in a russet gown
she was no longer lady clare:
she went by dale, and she went by down
with a single rose in her hair
the lily~white doe lord ronald had brought
leapt up from where she lay
dropt her head in the maiden’s hand
and follow’d her all the way
down stept lord ronald from his tower:
“o lady clare, you shame your worth!
why come you drest like a village maid
that are the flower of the earth?”
“if i come drest like a village maid
i am but as my fortunes are:
i am a beggar born,” she said
“and not the lady clare.”
“play me no tricks,” said lord ronald
“for i am yours in word and in deed
play me no tricks,” said lord ronald
“your riddle is hard to read.”
o and proudly stood she up!
her heart within her did not fail:
she look’d into lord ronald’s eyes
and told him all her nurse’s tale
he laugh’d a laugh of merry scorn:
he turn’d, and kiss’d her where she stood:
“if you are not the heiress born
and i,” said he, “the next in blood~~
“if you are not the heiress born
and i,” said he, “the lawful heir
we two will wed to~morrow morn
and you shall still be lady clare.”
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