New Music 7(3)

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Text Authorship:

• by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "Fog", appears in Chicago Poems, first published 1916

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The sea's own children
Do not understand.
They know
But that the sea is strong
Like God's hand.
They know
But that sea wind is sweet
Like God's breath,
And that the sea holds
A wide, deep death.

Text Authorship:

• by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), "Sea charm", appears in The Weary Blues, first published 1926 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Ray Green (b. 1908), published 1934 [ TTBB chorus ]

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