"A Flower Given To My Daughter". Poem by James Joyce. Music by Ken Sullivan

This song for soprano and harp is a setting of the poem by James Joyce, titled "A Flower Given To My Daughter" written to his daughter Lucia.
Composer: Ken Sullivan, Harp, Suzanne Thomas, Soprano, Martha Herr
A Flower Given to My Daughter
Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave
Whose soul is sere and paler
Than time's wan wave.
Rosefrail and fair -- yet frailest
A wonder wild
In gentle eyes thou veilest,
My blueveined child.
Poem by James Joyce

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Last 40 years of her life in an institution, rarely visited by any family

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Heartbreaking.

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Can't hear the words ????