If You Have Forgotten

"If You Have Forgotten" is a song by Elinor Remick Warren setting the poetry of Sara Teasdale.

Date: 1940Composer: Elinor Remick WarrenText: Sara Teasdale

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Water Lilies
by Sara Teasdale

If you have forgotten water lilies floating
On a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon shade,
If you have forgotten their wet, sleepy fragrance,
Then you can return and not be afraid.

But if you remember, then turn away forever
To the plains and the prairies where pools are far apart,
There you will not come at dusk on closing water lilies,
And the shadow of mountains will not fall on your heart.

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Selected Songs by Elinor Remick Warren

Composer(s): Elinor Remick Warren

Song(s): Includes Singing Earth, If You Have Forgotten, Lonely Roads, Sailing Homeward

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