Echo's Song

"Echo's Song" is the fourth song of Daron Aric Hagen's song cycle Echo's Songs. The text is by British Renaissance poet Benjamin Jonson.

Date: 1983Composer: Daron Aric HagenText: Benjamin JonsonSong Collection: Echo's Songs

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Slow, Slow, Fresh Font, Keep Time…
by Ben Johnson

Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears:
Yet slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs:
List to the heavy part the music bears,
Woe weeps out her division when she sings.
Droop herbs and flowers,
Fall grief in showers,
Our beauties are not ours;
O, I could still,
Like melting snow upon some craggy hill,
Drop, drop, drop, drop,
Since nature’s pride is, now, a withered daffodil.

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Echo's Songs

Composer(s): Daron Aric Hagen

Song(s): 1. Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
2. I Am Not Yours
3. A Dream Within a Dream
4. Echo's Song
5. I Am Rose
6. Lost
7. Why Did You Go
8. Since You Went Away
9. Thou Wouldst Be Loved
10. Look Down, Fair Moon
11. The Mild Mother

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