When a man is sitting before the fire on the hearth, he says, "Nature is a simple affair." Then he looks out the window and sees a hailstorm, and begins to think that "Nature can't be so eas'ly disposed of."
Three Little Americana Songs
Song Cycle by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947)
1. Nature  [sung text checked 1 time]
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Ann Street  [sung text checked 1 time]
Quaint name, Ann street. Width of same, ten feet. Barnums mob - Ann street, Far from obsolete. Narrow, yes. Ann street, But business, both feet. (Nassau crosses Ann Street) Sun just hits Ann street, Then it quits - some greet! Rather short, Ann street...
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ann Street", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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3. Like a sick eagle  [sung text checked 1 time]
[My]1 spirit is too weak; mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die,
Like a sick eagle looking towards the sky.
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Authorship:
- by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time"
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- FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "En contemplant les marbres d'Elgin pour la première fois", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Beim ersten Sehen der Parthenon Friese", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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