Symphony no. 7 - Sinfonia Antartica

Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

1. Prelude
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
  To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
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  Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

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2. Scherzo
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There go the ships and there is that
Leviathan whom thou has made to take
his pastime therein.

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3. Landscape
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  Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain’s brow
Adown enormous ravines slope amain —
Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice,
And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!
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4. Intermezzo
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Love, all alike, no season knows or clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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5. Epilogue
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I do not regret this journey...
We took risks, we knew we took them,
Things have come out against us,
Therefore we have no cause for complaint.

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Note: from an entry in R. Scott's last journal written just before he died in Antarctica.


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