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by T'ao Ch'ien (365 - 427)
Translation by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945)

Song of the peach‑blossom fountain
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
Furl your sail! O furl your sail!
Homeward calls the nightingale.

Little scholar clad in blue,
Heal the wound of me and you;
Broken links are forged anew
In the vales of Arcady.

Dusky blossom, mount of Peaches.
Light me through your tunnel'd reaches,
Where a shaft of gold displays
Suns of vanish'd worlds, and yesterdays.

In yon many-mazèd nook
Bring my childish dreams to book,
Haunting gleams and shadow traces
Drift of long-forgotten races.

Little ghost in scholar's gown
Like a star come trailing down.
We will share a brighter birth
Than the bonded thralls of Earth.

There, with all my songs unsung
Lay me, where the heart was young.

Text Authorship:

  • by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by T'ao Ch'ien (365 - 427) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Song of the peach-blossom fountain", 1943, published 1946 [ voice and piano ], London, Chappell & Co.  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-03-11
Line count: 20
Word count: 111

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