Four Sea Lyrics

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Song Cycle by Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877 - 1921)

1. After sunset
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
The sea lies quieted beneath
The after sunset flush
That leaves upon the heap'd grey clouds
The grapes faint purple blush.

Pale, from a little space in heaven
Of delicate ivory.
The sickle moon and one gold star
Look down upon the sea.

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2. Darkness

Language: English 
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3. The crying of water
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
O Water, voice of my heart,
Crying in the sand, 
All night long crying
with mournful cry.
As I lie and listen,
and cannot understand
The voice of my heart in my side,
or the voice of the sea.
O water, water,
crying for rest,
Is it I? is it I?
All night long 
The water is crying to me.

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4. Requies  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
O is it death or life that sounds
Like something strangely known
In this subsiding out of strife,
This low sea monotone?

A sound scarce heard through sleep
Murmurs as the August bees
That fill the forest hollows deep
About the roots of trees.

O is it death or life, or is it
Hope or memory
That quiets all things with this breath
Of the eternal sea?

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Total word count: 170