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The breaths of kissing night and day Were mingled in the eastern Heaven: Throbbing with unheard melody, Shook Lyra all its [star-chord]1 seven: When dusk [shrank]2 cold, and light trod shy, And dawn's gray eyes were troubled gray; And souls went palely up to the sky, And mine to Lucidè. There was no change in her sweet eyes Since last I saw those sweet eyes shine; There was no change in her deep heart Since last that deep heart knocked at mine. Her eyes were clear, her eyes were Hope's, Wherein did ever come and go The sparkle of the fountain-drops From her sweet soul below. The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air That Time's hoar wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair. I joyed for me, I joyed for her, Who with the Past meet girt about: Where [our]3 last kiss still warms the air, Nor can her eyes go out.
Confirmed with A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895.
1 Holst: "star-cloud"2 Holst: "shrank"
3 Holst: "her"
Authorship:
- by Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907), "Dream-Tryst" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by William Denis Browne (1888 - 1915), "Dream-Tryst", 1909 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950), "Dream-Tryst", 1902 [ baritone and orchestra ], first setting [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950), "Dream-Tryst", 1909 [ baritone and orchestra ], second setting [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Dream tryst" [ chorus ], partsong [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Harold Vincent Jervis-Read (1883 - 1945), "Dream tryst" [ chorus and orchestra ], Ashdown Ltd [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Tim Palmer) , "Rencontre en rêve", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 24
Word count: 164
Les haleines des baisers nuit et jour se mélangaient dans les cieux de l’orient: palpitant avec de la mélodie non-entendue secouaient les sept étoiles de Lyra: Quand le crepuscule reculait froid, et la lumière marchait timidement, et les yeux gris de l’aube étaient troublés gris: et des âmes montaient le ciel pâlement, et la mienne à Lucidè. Ses doux yeux n’avaient pas changé depuis la dernière fois que j’ai vu briller ces yeux: son cœur profond n’avait pas changé depuis la dernière fois que son cœur a frappé au mien. Ses yeux étaient clairs, ses yeux appartenaient l’Espoir dans quoi viennent et vont toujours l’étincelle des gouttes de la fontaine de son âme doux dessous. Les chambres dans la maison des rêves sont alimentées d’un air tellement divin, que les ailles grises du Temps deviennent jeunes là-dedans, et ceux qui y marchent sont extrèmement beaux. J’ai réjoui pour moi, j’ai réjoui pour elle, qui avec le Passé se rencontrent entourés: où notre dernier baiser chauffe l’air toujours, ni peuvent ses yeux s’éteindre.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907), "Dream-Tryst"
This text was added to the website: 2017-07-07
Line count: 24
Word count: 172