Listen to other songs of Jack Gibbons "Echo" Watch Jack Gibbons performing Scarlatti   Jack Gibbons' Writings... "Happy at the piano" Gershwin feature "The Myths of Alkan" BBC talk "Fighting Back" Interview with Gibbons and more...	"THE BOURNE" Music by JACK GIBBONS Words by CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sung by Ann Mackay (soprano) Accompanied by Jack Gibbons (piano) Recorded by Tony Faulkner at Henry Wood Hall, London November 17th 2003 Music copyright Jack Gibbons 2001 Performance copyright Jack Gibbons 2003 Use right click for audio controls/settings	Ann Mackay
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	The Bourne words by Christina Rossetti Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.	Christina Rossetti with her mother (photo Lewis Carroll)
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