Drinking With The Moon Alone

Song Cycle by Lori F. Ardovino (b. 1960)

Publisher: Potenza Music Publishing (external link)

1. Drinking With The Moon Alone  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
From a pot of wine among the flowers
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Confirmed with The Jade Mountain, translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu, compiled by Sun Zhu, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, p.59


2. The Traveller's Song  [sung text not yet checked]

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The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted mother
Makes clothes for the body of her wayward boy;
Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends,
Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home.
But how much love has the inch-long grass
For three spring months of the light of the sun?

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  • Singable translation by Harold Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "A Traveller's Song", subtitle: "(Written to Music)"
  • Singable translation by Kiang Kang-hu (1883 - 1954), "A Traveller's Song", subtitle: "(Written to Music)"

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Confirmed with The Jade Mountain, translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu, compiled by Sun Zhu, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, p.107


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3. On a Gate‑Tower  [sung text not yet checked]

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Where, before me, are the ages that have gone?
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