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Where Grief Slumbers

Song Cycle by Earl Kim (1920 - 1998)

1. Listen to it rain
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Listen to it rain, listen to it rain
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Du coton dans les oreilles", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 5. Obus couleur de lune
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2. from Drunken Boat
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
I have seen the low sun (stained) with mystic signs
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

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  • a text in French (Français) by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Le bâteau ivre"
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3. It's raining
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Language: English 
it's raining women's voices as if they were dead even in memory
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

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  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Il pleut", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, first published 1916
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4. Ophelia
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
On the calm black water where the stars sleep
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

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  • a text in French (Français) by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Ophélie"
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5. The Farewell
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
I picked this spray of Heather
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

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  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'Adieu", written 1903, appears in Alcools, first published 1913
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6. The Departure
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
And their faces grew pale
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Départ", written 1915, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 6. La tête étoilée, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918
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7. The girl with orange lips
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
At the (edge) of the forest
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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright ©

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), appears in Les Illuminations
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