Four Rilke Sonnets

Song Cycle by Robert Cogan (1930 - 2021)

1. There rose a tree  [sung text not yet checked]

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There rose a tree. O pure transcendency!
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2. A god can do it  [sung text not yet checked]

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A god can do it. But will you tell me how
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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus; A Dual Language Edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, p.78


3. Erect no tombstone

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Erect no tombstone
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4. And almost a girl it was and came forth  [sung text not yet checked]

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And almost a girl it was and came forth
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