Gabriel Fauré: Le jardin de Dolly (from "Dolly Suite"), Opus 56, No. 3 (SMB #130)

(The garden of Dolly, re-entitled: There is a garden in her face; text by Campion.)

There is a garden in her face where roses and lilies grow; a heav'nly paradise is that place wherein all pleasant fruits flow; there cherries grow which none may buy. Those cherries fairly do enclose of orient pearls a double row, which when her lovely laughter show, they look like rosebuds filled with snow.

(Approx. performance timing: 2:18)

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