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
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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
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
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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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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 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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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]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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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]Total word count: 222