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The caged bird

from For Beauty's Sake by The Rossettis

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.Emily Brontë
The caged bird

And like myself lone,
Wholly lone,
It sees the day’s long sunshine glow;
And like myself it makes its moan
In unexhausted woe.

Give we the hills our equal prayer:
Earth’s breezy hills and heaven’s blue sea;
We ask for nothing further here
But our own hearts and liberty.

Ah! Could my hands unlock its chain,
How gladly would I watch it soar,
And ne’er regret and ne’er complain
To see its shining eyes no more.

But let me think that if to-day
It pines in cold captivity,
To-morrow both shall soar away
Eternally, entirely free.

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from For Beauty's Sake, released June 1, 2014
lyrics: Emily Bronte
music: Mariska Reijmerink
arranged by The Rossettis

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The Rossettis are the band around singer Mariska Reijmerink who sets beautiful English poetry to beautiful music. Her excellent band members are pianist Jan-Peter Bast, his partner and violinist Sophie de Rijk and Mariska's long-time friend and drummer Arthur Brenkman. With the four of them they create an enchanting, intimate, tender and yet energetic sound that does credit to the poems. ... more

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