Longing by Adolphus Hailstork - Roderick George, tenor

"Longing" from Adolphus Hailstork's "Four Romantic Love Songs" on poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Roderick George, tenor
Valerie M. Trujillo, piano
If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day,
And whisper with me the sweetest dreamings o'er and o'er;
I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray,
And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore.
If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day,
And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old,
I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray,
Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold.
If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day,
And tell me that my longing heart had won your own,
I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away,
And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan!
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[@leezayorke6903]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@dennisrice2763]

Damn! What a voice! And a wonderful interpretation of a wonderful composition.