Yoichi Tenko, the painter, Dwelt by the purple sea, Painting the peacock islands Under his wiilow-tree: Also in temples he painted Dragons of old Japan, With a child to look at the pictures Little O Kimi San. Kimi, the child of his brother, Bright as the moon in May, White as a lotus lily, Pink as a plum-tree spray, Linking her soft arm round him Sang to lis heart for an hour, Kissed him with ripples of laughter And lips of the cherry flower. Child of the old pearl-fisher Lost in his junk at sea, Kimi was loved of Tenko As his own child might be, Yoichi Tenko the painter, Wrinkled and grey and old, Teacher of many disciples That paid for his dreams with gold.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1958), appears in A Tale of Old Japan, no. 1 [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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), no title, published 1911 [ soprano, tenor, baritone; mixed chorus and orchestra ], from A Tale of Old Japan, no. 1, London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
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