To my friend Percy C.

Hull, Hereford

Serenade
Rosa Newmarch (1857 – 1940) Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934)
adapted from Nikolai Minsky (1855 – 1937)



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Dreams all too brief, Dreams with out grief, Once they are bro ken, come not a gain,

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all is dark and drear a bove; The bare trees toss their arms and weep

  

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should you scat ter them in vain? Once they are bro ken, come not a gain,

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Rest on, and do not wake, dear Love

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calls Through sleep less nights for ease from pain!

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Revision 1.0 – 21. 04. 2014. Edition by Peter Rottländer