Here it is spring again and I still a young man! I am late at my singing. The sparrow with the black rain on his breast has been at his cadenzas for two weeks past: What is it that is dragging at my heart? The grass by the back door is stiff with sap. The old maples are opening their branches of brown and yellow moth-flowers. A moon hangs in the blue in the early afternoons over the marshes. I am late at my singing.
Singing
by Tom Cipullo (b. 1960)
1. The Late Singer  [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963), "The Late Singer", appears in Sour Grapes: a Book of Poems, first published 1921
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Who among us hasn’t so [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Robin Behn (b. 1958), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. By the Waters of Babylon  [sung text checked 1 time]
By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, as we remembered Zion. We hung our harps on willows there. For there our captors required of us song, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?”
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- by Bible or other Sacred Texts [an adaptation]
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- a text in Latin by Bible or other Sacred Texts , "Psalmus 136 (137)"
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