Fantasia Lindum

Prelude And Theme

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Song "Swifts, Swains And Leafy Lanes"

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

As a lover to his lass and a woodsman to his deer

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

Resplendent in its finery of verdant Lincolnshire

Thoughts of field and pasture enrapture and capture

Fair memories of my youth

Days of love and laughter yet laughter thereafter

Allayed to leave but truth

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

As a lover to his lass and a woodsman to his deer

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

Resplendent in its finery of verdant Lincolnshire

Scenes of church and priory inspire me and fire me

To dwell on times gone by

Hours of merrymaking when pleasures were for taking

How can they all now die?

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

As a lover to his lass and a woodsman to his deer

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

Resplendent in its finery of verdant Lincolnshire

The pain of my forlorn love has been

This countryside of Lincoln Green

Evetide warblers trilling with dulcet tones instilling

Ideas which weren't denied

Yet brief was your bold passion for one man was not fashion

So love is cast aside

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

As a lover to his lass and a woodsman to his deer

Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, this county brings them near

Resplendent in its finery of verdant Lincolnshire

Dance "Jig Upon Jig"

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Theme (Lutes And Recorder)

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Dance Galliard "God Must Doubt"

Your beauty is perfection

As two notes rhymed in harmony

Your faults, I can detect none

For God must doubt there are any

Song "Lincolnshire Lullaby"

Song of a lovebird, speed soon to your window

Oh lady, be mine tonight

Buzzards of sweet words, speak soft by your pillow

To woo you while sun slips from sight

Evening descending, day's at an ending

The ploughboy lays down his share

Lincoln sleeps still from valley to hill

The silence of night is there

May gardens of roses, crimsoned fragrance expounding

Adorn your dream fields tonight

And as day closes, waning with twilight surrounding

Then let our love's eager flame burn bright

Evening descending, day's at an ending

The ploughboy lays down his share

Lincoln sleeps still from valley to hill

The silence of night is there

Thus falls the darkness, watching the world lie yawning

It turns the day safe tonight

So sleep sound, my darling, slumber on till the morning

Brings forth her blessed blanket of light

Evening descending, day's at an ending

The ploughboy lays down his share

Lincoln sleeps still from valley to hill

The silence of night is there

Dance "Basse Danse"

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Theme (Lute Duet)

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Dance "Quatre Bras Pavan"

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Song "Celestial Light" (For Lincoln Cathedral)

Sparkling dew soaks the dawn grass

Announcing the nighttime's decay

Morning larks on the lawns massed

Signify a newborn day

Welcomed rays that the sun casts

Gleam brighter in every single way

Now from the dismal gloom

Of night's incarcerate tomb

Shines your celestial light

Heavenly sacred sight

Shine on, celestial light

You're as fresh as the daybreak

As radiant as the early morning sun

All the weathering of the years make

Your splendour a sight, second to none

And mortals from their sleep will wake

To view you for a thousand years on

Now from the dismal gloom

Of night's incarcerate tomb

Shines your celestial light

Heavenly sacred sight

Shine on, celestial light

Cathedral's spark set light to dark

Dance "Coranto"

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Theme (Lutes And Recorders)

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End

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