The Poet's Requiem

Song Cycle by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022)

1. Friends, let us mourn

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Friends, let us mourn
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2. Make me, my streaming face  [sung text not yet checked]

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Make me, my streaming face, a glory; bloom, unseen weeping!
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Confirmed with Paul Goodman, The Dead of Spring, Libertarian Press, 1950, p.171


3. Look, Segramor

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Look, Segramor, you know the language of the birds
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4. Vast gulph!

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Vast gulph! carried here in the mass of the mist
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5. Our own death is unimaginable  [sung text not yet checked]

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Our own death is unimaginable; and when we try to imagine it
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6.   [sung text not yet checked]

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Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave
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7. The hare or the deer

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The hare or the deer pursued takes joy in its speed and its leaps and its dodges
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8. All eyes  [sung text not yet checked]

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All eyes, the Creature sees
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Total word count: 186