From: Five Songs/A.E. Housman-Op. 14, No 3
1. The text of this song came from Alfred Edward Housman's poetry cycle A Shropshire Lad, and has been set to the music of other composers over the years.
2. Sir Lennox Randall Francis Berkeley was knighted in 1974 for his contributions to English music.
"Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And love it and be lost like me.
One the long nights through must lie
Spent in star-defeated sighs,
But why should you as well as I
Perish? Gaze not in my eyes.
A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,
One that many loved in vain,
Looked into a forest well
And never looked away again.
There, when the turf in springtime flowers,
With downward eye and gazes sad,
Stands amid the glancing showers
A jonquil, not a Grecian lad."