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Song Cycle by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939)

Publisher: Wise Music Classical (external link)

1. Eyesight  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
It was May before my
attention came
to spring and

my word I said
to the southern slopes
I've

missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see:

don't worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes
or if

you can climb, climb
into spring: but
said the mountain

it's not that way
with all things, some
that go are gone

Text Authorship:

  • by Archibald Randolph Ammons (1926 - 2001), "Eyesight"

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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

2. Interlude I

Language: Unknown Language 
— This text is not currently
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as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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3. Reversal  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The mt in my head surpasses you
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Archibald Randolph Ammons (1926 - 2001), "Reversal", written 1970, copyright ©

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Confirmed with A.R.Ammons, Reversal, in: Poetry, October, 1970, p.14


6. Consignee  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
I have been brought out of day,
out of the full dawn led away;
   from the platform of noon
I have descended.

To death, the diffuse one
going beside me, I said,
   You have brought me out of day
and he said
No longer like the fields of earth
may you go in and out.

I quarreled and devised a while
   but went on
having sensed a nice dominion in the air,
the black so round and deep.

Text Authorship:

  • by Archibald Randolph Ammons (1926 - 2001), "Consignee"

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9. Way to Go  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
West light flat on trees:
bird flying
deep out in blue glass:
uncertain wind
stirring the leaves: this is
the world we have:
take it

Text Authorship:

  • by Archibald Randolph Ammons (1926 - 2001), "Way to go"

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Total word count: 222
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