Recollection of First Love

from IN A SMA ROOM by Debra Salem, Kevin MacKenzie, Paul Harrison

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lyrics

RECOLLECTION OF FIRST LOVE by William Soutar

When I recall your form and face
More than you I recall
To come into a meeting-place
Where no leaves fall:
The years walk round this secret garth
But cannot change its guarded earth.

I have known women fonder far
Than you; more fair, more kind:
Women whose passionate faces are
Flowers in the mind:
But as a tall tree, stem on stem,
Your presence overshadows them.

They quicken from my sentient day
And stir my body’s need;
But you had fixéd roots ere they
Down-dropped in seed:
They can but copy all I found
When you alone grew in this ground.

You are reborn from changeless loam
And are a changeless shade:
Your feet had paced the paths to Rome
Ere Rome was made:
Under your eyes great towers down fell
Before that Trojan citadel.

Time, who is knocking at the gate,
Cannot make you his boast:
Our garden shall be desolate
But you – a ghost
Timeless; as beauty’s timeless norm
You are in passion and in form.

credits

from IN A SMA ROOM, released February 1, 2021
Music: Debra Salem

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about

Debra Salem Perth, UK

Singer/songwriter with a distinct vocal tone that has grown out of both jazz and folk traditions.
Originally from Belfast, she now lives and works in Scotland.