Songs of Nature

Song Cycle by Marian Harrison (b. 1974)

1. Now Silence

Language: English 
Now silence. Earth and wind / Wild animals, birds -- sleep takes them in
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Francesco Petrarca, Francis Petrarch: Songs and Sonnets from Laura's Lifetime, Nicholas Kilmer (Translator), Anvil Press Poetry, 1980, p.164


2. Snow  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
In the gloom of whiteness 
In the great silence of snow, 
A child was sighing and bitterly saying; "Oh, 
They have killed a white bird 
up there on her nest, 
The down is fluttering from her breast!" 

And still it fell through that dusky brightness 
On the child crying for the bird of the snow.

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3. The Wind  [sung text not yet checked]

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Who has seen the wind? 
  Neither I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling,
  The wind is passing through. 

Who has seen the wind? 
  Neither you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads,
  The wind is passing by.

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