Listen to 5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 1, You Lay So Still in the Sunshine by Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper

5 Songs of Sun and Shade (Excerpts): No. 1, You Lay So Still in the Sunshine

Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper

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LYRICS

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PERFORMING ARTISTS

Elizabeth Llewellyn

Elizabeth Llewellyn

Soprano

Simon Lepper

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Composer

Radclyffe-Hall

Lyrics

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You lay so still in the sunshine

So still in that hot sweet hour –

That the timid things of the forest land

Came close a butterfly lit on your hand

Mistaking it for a flow'r

Mistaking it for a flow'r

For a flow'r

[Verse 2]

You scarcely breath'd in your slumber

So dreamless it was so deep–

While the warm air stirr'd in my veins like wine

The air that had blown thro' a jasmine vine

But you slept – and I let you sleep

You slept – and I let you sleep

I let you sleep

Written by: Radclyffe-Hall, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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