Listen to other songs of Jack Gibbons "The Bourne" 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...	"ECHO" 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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	Echo words by Christina Rossetti Come to me in the silence of night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years. Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet, Whose awakening should have been in Paradise, Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet; Where thirsting longing eyes Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more. Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death: Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago.	Christina Rossetti
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