Tune: Noel Nouvelet
('Now the green blade riseth')
Adapted and extended,with permission
from 'Bells' poem by Fay Slimm
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Million bells waving bright bonnets of blue
Flaunting their tall ranks of incredible hue
Groundbreaking columns of stalks fill the shade
Assailing our senses from every dull glade
Mid dapple-dim woods we tread without a sound
Breathtaking armies of blue are all around
Sun shedding Spring over cold woodland dew
Highlighting patches of fine mystical blue
Sheer seas of colour are all billowing there
Dance to perfection in their Show of the Year*
Observantly on well-worn tracks we tread
Anticipating the joys that are ahead
Then our nature's ramble it comes to an end
Though we have explored where lanes and paths do wend
So happy memories of creation
Hopeful of fair weather, do it all again
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* The poem is extended from hereon,
with me having added these lines.
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: May 7th, 2020 01:56
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 11.11.10.11. metre. What do you think of this combination - adapting and extending?
- Category: Spiritual
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Brian here ~ Good Morning Uncle Steve. Thanks for the Elizabethan Madrigal - beuatifully sung. Love the language & sentence constuction - which has in the 21st C sunk into texting. I blame *Drinka Pinta Milka Day* also *BEANZ MEANZ HEINZ* which started the ROT" That is the AGE GROUP (TEENS) Angela & I work with @ the Church. They love TAIZE & ACAPELLO ! Because ther are only about 15 of them in a Big Hall we are allowed to meet for practice - on Sunday afternoon - and they sound quite different (eerie ?) all sx feet apart ! We dont wear masks or we would al sound like an ORCHIDEE = CACHOPHONY !
Love the Adaption / Extension of Fays *Bluebells*.. Angela & I consider FAY the best Poet currently on MPS. She is a seasoned Poet and always surprises with her Poetic Wordsmithing !
Blessings to You & Your Amourous Alsation Fido
Spiritual Love ~ Brian & Angela 🧡🤍💙🤍🧡
Thanks A&B.
A lovely walk into the bluebell woods today. Thank you.
Thanks Dusk.
Ah - "now the green blade riseth" indeed . ...You chose just the right musical sound and title for this gentle adaption and extension dear Orchi - - - thank you for using my verse on Bells
Thanks Fay. The first four lines at least, fitted exactly to the tune. I only adapted your words mainly where extra syllables were needed - words such as 'and'. 'so', 'their', etc.
Very good extension for my walk in the woods.
Thanks Gold. You seeing them bluebells?
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