[ti:Letters] [ar:Mark Bradshaw] [al:Bright Star (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Letters - Mark Bradshaw [00:37.44]My dearest lady [00:40.69]I am now at a very pleasant cottage window [00:43.29]Looking onto a beautiful hilly country [00:46.30]With a view of the sea [00:48.81]The morning is very fine [00:51.38]I do not know how elastic my spirit might be [00:55.11]What pleasure I might have in living here [00:57.03]If the remembrance of you did not weigh so upon me [01:02.07]Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me [01:06.88]So destroyed my freedom [01:11.37]For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form [01:17.12]I want a brighter word than brighta fairer word than fair [01:24.73]I almost wish we were butterflies [01:27.77]And lived but three summer days [01:31.42]Three such days with you I could fill with more delight [01:33.48]Than 50 common years could ever contain [01:51.72]When you can confess this in a letter [01:54.33]You must write immediately [01:56.24]And do all you can to console me in it [01:59.08]Make it rich as a draft of poppies [02:00.89]To intoxicate me [02:02.51]Write the softest words and kiss them [02:06.64]That I may at least touch my lips where yours have been [02:14.16]My dear Mr Keats thank you for your letter [02:18.97]Lately I have felt so nervous and ill [02:21.09]That I had to stay five days in bed [02:24.05]Have received your letter [02:25.85]I am up again walking our paths on the heath [02:29.14]I've begun a butterfly farm in my bedroom in honor of us [02:32.93]Sammy and Toots are catching them for me [02:35.91]Samuel has made a science of it [02:38.10]And is collecting both caterpillars and chrysalises [02:40.61]So we may have them fluttering about us a week or more [02:50.83]I have two luxurious to brood over in my walks [02:53.95]Your loveliness and the hour of my death [02:58.17]O that O could have possession of them both in the same minute [03:02.92]I never knew before what such a love as you have made me feel was [03:06.98]I did not believe in it [03:08.71]But if you will fully love me [03:11.08]Though there may be some fire [03:12.46]It will not be more than we can bear [03:13.86]When moistened and bedewed with pleasures