Reflection: Three Poems by Emily Brontë

Song Cycle by Ronald A. Beckett

1. Fall, leaves, fall  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

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2. The sun has set  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The sun has set, and the long grass [now]1
Waves [dreamily]2 in the evening wind; 
[And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone 
In some warm nook a couch to find.]3 

In all the lonely landscape round 
I see no [light]4 and hear no sound, 
Except the wind [that far away]5
Come sighing o'er the healthy sea.

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Nelly

1 omitted by Mitchell
2 Fisk: "dreaming"
3 omitted by Fisk
4 Mitchell: "sight"
5 Mitchell: "which"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

3. The sun has set  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The sun has set, and the long grass [now]1
Waves [dreamily]2 in the evening wind; 
[And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone 
In some warm nook a couch to find.]3 

In all the lonely landscape round 
I see no [light]4 and hear no sound, 
Except the wind [that far away]5
Come sighing o'er the healthy sea.

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Note: in the Fisk work, this is sung by Nelly

1 omitted by Mitchell
2 Fisk: "dreaming"
3 omitted by Fisk
4 Mitchell: "sight"
5 Mitchell: "which"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 176