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Liza Lehmann

From "In Persian Garden," Myself when Young  Play

Ben Wager Bass
Scott Gilmore Piano

Recorded on 05/06/2008, uploaded on 01/18/2009

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Myself when young

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint and heard great argument,
But evermore
Came out by that same door where in I went.

With them the seed of wisdom did I sow
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow
And this was all the harvest that I reap'd
I came like water and like wind I go.

Why all the saints and sages who discuss'd
Of the two worlds so learnedly are thrust like foolish
Prophets forth their words to scorn are scatter'd
And their mouths are stopp'd with dust.