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This song began as I was driving home from Eugene along I-5 in the spring. The highway verges were studded with wild rose (you can tell it from tame roses by the five-petaled flowers) coming into bloom.

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Where the bees fly up, and they kiss the blossom's cup
With a sharp and patient eye in the shadows you may spy. . .

Wild Rose--wild Rose, lightly she goes
And her bright skirt flows where the free wind blows.
Wild Rose--wild Rose, shyly she grows
And her heart she shows where no stranger knows
Wild Rose.

As ardently, and as clumsy as the bee
My heart I did unclose, and kissed the trembling rose. . .

Hummed soft upon the breeze by a choir of drunken bees
Our song of love was played in a primrose-dappled glade.

Now lone and lorn I see one late and laggard bee
That stiffly home does wend, caught short by summer's end. .

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from Under The Gripping Beast, released October 1, 1997

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Echo's Children Portland, Oregon

In 1995 Cat Faber and Callie Hills teamed up to form Echo's Children, a duo known for well crafted harmonies and interesting lyrics about science fiction and fantasy subjects. They worked together until 2003, when Cat Faber moved to Tennessee and the group broke up. ... more

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