Always through the changing of sun and shadow, time and space,
I will walk beside my love in a green and quiet place.
Proof against the forms of fear, No distress shall alter me.
I will walk beside my dear, clad in love's bright heraldry.
Sound the battle's loud alarms, Any foe I shall withstand.
In the circle of his arms I am safe in Beulah Land.
Passion fades when joy is spent, Lust is lure for gold and crime,
Beauty's kiss is transient, Love alone is fixed in time.
I will walk beside my love in a green and quiet place.
Proof against the forms of fear, No distress shall alter me.
I will walk beside my dear, clad in love's bright heraldry.
Sound the battle's loud alarms, Any foe I shall withstand.
In the circle of his arms I am safe in Beulah Land.
Passion fades when joy is spent, Lust is lure for gold and crime,
Beauty's kiss is transient, Love alone is fixed in time.
Death cannot divide my love, All we sealed with living vows.
Warm I'll sleep beside my love in a cold and narrow house.
Never shall the mourning dove weep for us in accents wild.
I shall walk beside my love, who is husband, father, child.
As our earthly eyes grow dim, still the old song will be sung.
I shall change along with him, so that both are ever young.
Warm I'll sleep beside my love in a cold and narrow house.
Never shall the mourning dove weep for us in accents wild.
I shall walk beside my love, who is husband, father, child.
As our earthly eyes grow dim, still the old song will be sung.
I shall change along with him, so that both are ever young.
The Ballad of Baby Doe, by Douglas Moore and John Latouch (1956)
