My Hand Forever

(Text: Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867,
English translations by Jack Collings Squire)

Date: 2006Composer: Lori LaitmanSong Collection: River of Horses

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Always, forever!

Forever I will scatter in each strand,

rubies and pearls and sapphires with a lavish hand…

Thou art the well-spring in a desert land

Where-from I quaff deep droughts of memory.

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