Charles Ives - West London lyrics
[Charles Ives - West London lyrics]
Crouch'd on the pavement
Close by Belgrave Square
A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied
A babe was in her arms, and at her side
A girl their clothes were rags
Their feet were bare some labouring men
Whose work lay somewhere there
Pass'd opposite She touch'd her girl
Who hied
Across, and begg'd and came back satisfied
The rich she had let pass with a frozen stare
Thought I: Above her state this spirit towers
She will not ask of Aliens, but of friends
Of sharers in a common human fate
She turns from the cold succour
Which attends
The unknown little from the unknowing great
And points us to a better time than ours
Close by Belgrave Square
A tramp I saw, ill, moody, and tongue-tied
A babe was in her arms, and at her side
A girl their clothes were rags
Their feet were bare some labouring men
Whose work lay somewhere there
Pass'd opposite She touch'd her girl
Who hied
Across, and begg'd and came back satisfied
The rich she had let pass with a frozen stare
Thought I: Above her state this spirit towers
She will not ask of Aliens, but of friends
Of sharers in a common human fate
She turns from the cold succour
Which attends
The unknown little from the unknowing great
And points us to a better time than ours
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