My lizard, my lively writher
May your limbs never wither
May the eyes in your face
Survive the green ice
Of envy’s mean gaze;
May you live out your life
Without hate, without grief
And your hair ever blaze
In the sun, in the sun
When I am undone
When I am no one
Other Samuel Barber songs:
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