Winter Memories

from Unrecorded Beam by Billie Bottle & The Multiple

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Winter Memories

I have remembered when the winter came,
High in my chamber in the frosty nights,
When in the still light of the cheerful moon,
On every twig and rail,
The icy spears were adding to their length
Against the arrows of the coming sun,
How in the shimmering noon of summer past
Some unrecorded beam slanted across

The upland pastures where the Johnswort grew,
The bee's long smothered hum, on the blue flag
Loitering amidst the mead; or busy rill,
Which now through all its course stands still and dumb
Its own memorial,—purling at its play

Along the slopes, and through the meadows next,
Until its youthful sound was hushed at last
In the staid current of the lowland stream;
Or seen the furrows shine,
And where the fieldfare followed in the rear,
When all the fields around lay bound and hoar
Beneath a thick integument of snow.
So by God's cheap economy made rich
To go upon my winter's task again

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from Unrecorded Beam, released December 16, 2013
Winter Memories

Billy Bottle - Voice, Grand Piano, Hammond Organ, Bass Guitar
Martine Waltier - Voice
Roz Harding - Alto Sax
Vivien Goodwin-Darke - Flute
Angus Menter - Trombone
Mike Outram - Bass Guitar
Gary Evans - Drums
Lee Fletcher: Digital Editing, Treatments

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