A Memory of the Ocean

Song Cycle by Grace-Evangeline Mason (b. 1994)

1. A Memory of the Ocean

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2. I am a pool  [sung text not yet checked]

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I am a pool in a peaceful
place, I greet the great sky face to face,
I know the stars and the stately moon
And the wind that runs with rippling shoon — 
But why does it always bring to me
The far-off, beautiful sound of the sea?

The marsh-grass weaves me a wall of green, 
But the wind comes whispering in between,
In the dead of night when the sky is deep 
The wind comes waking me out of sleep — 
Why does it always bring to me
The far-off, terrible call of the sea?

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Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Rivers to the Sea, Megali Verlag, 2023, p.61


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3. Sea of Amethyst  [sung text not yet checked]

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Beyond the sleepy hills of Spain,
The sun goes down in yellow mist,
The sky is fresh with dewy stars
Above a sea of amethyst.

Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare--
For him the happiness of light,
For me a delicate despair.

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Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Rivers to the Sea, Megali Verlag, 2023


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 146