Two Love Songs is a setting of the following two texts:

1. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

(W. B. Yeats)

2. I am a Flower of the Meadow

I am a flower of the meadow, I am a lily of the valleys.
As lilies among the nettles, so is my love among the daughters.

(Song of Soloman 2: 1-2, King James Version, adapted by the composer)

‘I am a Flower of the Meadow’ is dedicated to Steve and Andrea Hicks on the occasion of their wedding.