Anna-Louise Costello - Soprano - Old Sir Faulk (W. Walton - Three Songs from Facade)

Anna-Louise Costello : Soprano www.annalouisecostello.com
Hester Crombie : Piano

Song: Old Sir Faulk
Composer: William Walton
Text: Edith Sitwell

Text:
Old Sir Faulk
Tall as a stork,
Before the honeyed fruits of dawn were ripe, would walk,
And stalk with a gun
The reynard-coloured sun,
Among the pheasant-feathered corn the unicorn has torn,
Forlorn the smock-faced sheep sit and sleep;
Periwigged as William and Mary, weep...
'Sally, Mary, Mattie, what's the matter, why cry?'
The huntsman and the reynard-coloured sun and I sigh,
Oh, the nursery-maid Meg
With a leg like a peg
Chased the feathered dreams like hens,
And when they laid an egg in the sheepskin meadows where,
The serene King James would steer,
Horse and hounds, then he
From the shade of a tree
Picked it up as spoil to boil for nursery tea', said the mourners.
In the corn, towers strain, feathered tall as a crane,
And whistling down the feathered rain, old Noah goes again
An old dull mome with a head like a pome,
Seeing the world as a bare egg,
Laid by the feathered air,
Meg would beg three of these for the nursery teas of Japhet, Shem and Ham,
She gave it underneath the trees, where the boiling water hissed
Like the goose-king's feathered daughter kissed,
Pot and pan and copper kettle
Put upon their proper mettle,
Lest the Flood begin again through these!

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