Visions within

Song Cycle by Robert Benford Lepley

1. To Music  [sung text not yet checked]

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Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps
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  • by Robert Bly (b. 1926), "On Music", copyright ©

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2. You Darkness That I Come From  [sung text not yet checked]

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You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circIe of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
         
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! --
powers and people --

and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.

I have faith in nights.

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3. Already the ripening barberries are red  [sung text not yet checked]

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Already the ripening barberries are red
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, HarperCollins, 1981, p.10


4. My Life Is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour  [sung text not yet checked]

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My life is not this steeply sloping hour
in which you see me hurrying.
Much stands behind me;
I stand before it like a tree;
I am only one of my many mouths,
and at that, the one that will be
still the soonest.

I am the rest between two notes,
which are somehow always in discord
because Death’s note wants to climb over --
but in the dark interval, reconciled,
they stay there trembling.

And the song goes on, beautiful.

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5. I Find You In All These Things Of The World  [sung text not yet checked]

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I find you in all things of the world
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, HarperCollins, 1981, p.6

1 Lepley: "sister"

6. I Live My Life In Growing Orbits  [sung text not yet checked]

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I live my life in growing orbits,
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last,
but that will be my attempt. 

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years.
And I still don't know if I am a falcon,
Or a storm, or a great song.

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