Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know each bit, your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Then with your eyes that wearily scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone slowly you raise a shadowy black tree and fix it on the skYlslender, alone. And you have made the world (and it shall grow and ripen as a word, unspoken, still). When you have grasped its meaning with your will, then tenderly your eyes will let it go...
Initiation
Song Cycle by Bruce Harold Babcock
1. Initiation  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967), "Initiation"
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eingang", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]2. End of Autumn  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
I have seen for some time now the change in everything. Something arises and acts and kills and brings suffering. In the gardens now from day to day is a change from green to yellow and gray, a slow dying-away : how long my road has been. Now I stand in this emptiness and look down the rows of trees. Almost to the distant sea the foreboding earnestness of the sky lies heavily.
Authorship:
- by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967), "End of Autumn"
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Ende des Herbstes", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]3. Evening  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Slowly now the evening changes his garments [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967), "Evening", copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Abend", appears in Das Buch der Bilder
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