The Spirit of Love

Song Cycle by Ailsa Dixon (1932 - 2017)

Publisher: Composers Edition (external link)

1. As the harmonic to the sounding string

Language: English 
As the harmonic to the sounding string
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2. From far, from eve and morning  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am I.

Now - for a breath I tarry
Nor yet disperse apart - 
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.

Speak now, and I will answer;
How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
I take my endless way.

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3. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The night has a thousand eyes,
 And the day but one;
Yet the light of the [world]1 dies
 With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
 And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
 When love is done.

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Viel tausend Augen hat die Nacht", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Francis William Bourdillon, Among the Flowers, London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878, page 101.

1 Foote, Venables: "bright world"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull
Total word count: 114