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15 Wild Decembers

by The Geoff Smith Band

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the warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing the bare boughs are signing, the pale flowers are dying and the year on the earth her death bed in a shroud of leaves dead is lying come, months, come away from november to may in your saddest array follow the bier of the dead cold year and like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre the chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling the rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling for the year the blithe swallows have flown and the lizards each gone to his dwelling come, months, come away put on white, black and grey let your light sisters play ye, follow the bier of the dead cold year and make her grave green with tear on tear ['A Dirge' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822]
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cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave it will not shine again its sad course is done I have seen the last ray wane of the cold, bright sun cold in the earth and fifteen wild decembers from those brown hills have melted into spring no later light has lightened up my heaven no second morn has ever shone for me all my life's bliss from thy dear life was given all my life's bliss is in the grave with thee. [Lines taken from 'Remembrance' and an untitled fragment by Emily Bronte, 1818-1848]
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possess me 08:11
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fall, leaves, fall die, flowers, away every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree [fifteen wild decembers] I shall smile when wreaths of snow blossom where the rose should grow I shall sing when night's decay ushers in a drearier day [Fragment by Emily Bronte, 1818-1848]
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slow days have passed that make a year slow hours that make a day since I could take my first dear love and kiss him in the old way and bring to me a sadder dream when this sad dream is dead. [Lines taken from 'A Year and a Day' by Elizabeth Siddal, 1833-1862]

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Voice: Nicola Walker Smith
Keyboards: Geoff Smith
Executive Producer: Martyn Harry
Producer & Recording Engineer: Steve Nye

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released June 27, 1995

Art Director: Mark Burdett
Graphic Artist: Jean Carbain
Cover Photos: The Douglas Brothers
Sony Classical: SK 66605
Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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