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Four Songs for High Soprano
Song Cycle by Gordon Ware Binkerd (1916 - 2003)
1. Lightly like music running
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Jean Garrigue (1912 - 1972), 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.2. Her silver will  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
The moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below. Her forehead is of amplest blond; Her cheek like beryl stone; Her eye unto the summer dew The likest I have known. Her lips of amber never part; But what must be the smile Upon her friend she could bestow Were such her silver will! And what a privilege to be But the remotest star! For certainly her way might pass Beside your twinkling door. Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue.
Authorship:
- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1896
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. Mermaid remembered
Language: English
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Authorship:
- by Babbette Deutsch (1895 - 1982), 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.4. The fair morning  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
The clear bright morning, with its scented air And gaily waving flowers, is here again; Man's heart is lifted with the voice of prayer, And peace descends, as falls the gentle rain; The tuneful birds, that all the night have slept, Take up at dawn the evening's dying lay, When sleep upon their eyelids gently crept And stole with stealthy craft their song away. High overhead the forest's swaying boughs Sprinkle with drops the traveler on his way; He hears far off the tinkling bells of cows Driven to pasture at the break of day; With vigorous step he passes swift along, Making the woods reecho with his song.
Authorship:
- by Jones Very (1813 - 1880), "The fair morning"
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