Down by the Salley Gardens - Christopher Lowrey, Julius Drake

with subtitles
Poem by William Butler Yeats
Arranged by Benjamin Britten
Countertenor: Chris Lowrey
Piano: Julius Drake
Animation: H. Rentzsch
Edit: Lankin
Source material for most of the backgrounds from:
www.wildrosebasketry.ie/my-wi...
*Down by the Salley Gardens*
*Poem by William Butler Yeats*
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears