© by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985)
Translation
It began as a feast. And became a...
Language: English  after the English
It began as a feast. And became a festival, one hardly knows how… There was a beating of waves in the halls, a meeting together and a choosing of each other, a parting with each other and a finding again, a rejoicing in the radiance and a blinding in the light… Out of dark wine and a thousand roses runs the hour rushing into the dream of night.
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- a text in English by Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985), no title, appears in The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke, no. 15, copyright ©
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, no. 15, first published 1906
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- by Lisa Bielawa , "Castle", first performed 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 3
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- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Ladislav Fikar (1920 - 1975) ; composed by František Chaun.
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