Friends, let us mourn . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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The Poet's Requiem
Song Cycle by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022)
1. Friends, let us mourn
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) [text unavailable]
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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. Make me, my streaming face  [sung text not yet checked]
Make me, my streaming face, a glory; bloom, unseen weeping! [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in Unknown Language by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) [text unavailable]
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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.Confirmed with Paul Goodman, The Dead of Spring, Libertarian Press, 1950, p.171
3. Look, Segramor
Look, Segramor, you know the language of the birds . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) [text unavailable]
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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. Vast gulph!
Vast gulph! carried here in the mass of the mist . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Toast Funèbre", 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.5. Our own death is unimaginable  [sung text not yet checked]
Our own death is unimaginable; and when we try to imagine it [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), no title, 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.6. Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave  [sung text not yet checked]
Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Sentences, no. 14, first published 1962, 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.7. The hare or the deer
The hare or the deer pursued takes joy in its speed and its leaps and its dodges . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by André Gide (1869 - 1951), appears in Les nouvelles nourritures
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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.8. All eyes  [sung text not yet checked]
All eyes, the Creature sees [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Die achte Elegie", appears in Duineser Elegien, no. 8
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