Doraba la luna elrío ¡fresco de la madrugada! Por el mar venían olas teñidas de luz de alba. El campo débil y triste se iba alumbrando. Quedaba el canto roto de un grillo, la queja oscura de un agua. Huía el viento a su gruta, el horror a su cabaña; en el verde de los pinos se iban abriendo las alas. Las estrellas se morían, se rosaba la montaña; allá en el pozo del huerto la golondrina cantaba.
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Authorship:
- by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958), "Alborada " [author's text not yet checked 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 Lorenzo Palomo (b. 1938), "Alborada" [ voice and orchestra ], from Una primavera andaluza, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
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