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Mere Air

Song Cycle by Hana Ajiashvili

Score: Donemus (external link)

1. Mere Air  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Pain
drains
me
to
the
last
drop

Text Authorship:

  • by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958)

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 37
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2.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Stars ringing the lovely moon
pale to insignificance
when she illuminates the earth
with her magnificence.

Text Authorship:

  • by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958)

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 3
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3.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
I sip the cup of costly death;
I lose my color; I catch my breath
whenever I contemplate your presence,
or absence.

Text Authorship:

  • by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958)

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 2
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4.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Beautiful swift sparrows
rising on whirring wings
flee the dark earth for the sun-bright air...

Text Authorship:

  • by Michael R. Burch (b. 1958)

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), appears in Fragments, no. 1
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Total word count: 60
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