The tide wipes out the path across the flats [ ... ]
The island
Song Cycle by Colin Matthews (b. 1946)
1. The Island in the North Sea  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 1, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Die Insel - Nordsee, no. 1
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Stephen Cohn, Rainer Maria Rilke: Neue Gedichte / New poems, Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1998, p.113
2. The Farms  [sung text not yet checked]
As if it lay within a ring, a crater [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 2, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Die Insel - Nordsee, no. 2
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Stephen Cohn, Rainer Maria Rilke: Neue Gedichte / New poems, Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1998, p.115
3. The Star  [sung text checked 1 time]
What lives within is near. All else lies far [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Stephen Cohn , no title, appears in New Poems, in The Island in the North Sea, no. 3, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Die Insel - Nordsee, no. 3
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1 Matthews: "lies"
Confirmed with Stephen Cohn, Rainer Maria Rilke. Neue Gedichte / New poems, Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 1998, p.115