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Three Works for Male Chorus

Song Cycle by Alfred Kunz (b. 1929)

?. O cool is the valley now  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
O cool is the valley now 
  And there, love, will we go 
For many a choir is singing now 
  Where Love did sometime go. 

And hear you not the thrushes calling, 
  Calling us away? 
O cool and pleasant is the valley 
  And there, love, will we stay.

Text Authorship:

  • by James Joyce (1882 - 1941), no title, appears in Chamber Music, no. 16, first published 1907

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

?. The flirt  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
A pretty game, my girl, 
To play with me so long; 
Until this other lover 
Comes dancing to thy song, 
And my affair is over. 

But love, though well adored, 
Is not my only note : 
So let thy false love-prattle 
Be in another man's throat 
That weaker man's death-rattle. 

Ah, such as thou, at last, 
Wilt take a false man's hand : 
Think kindly then of me, 
When thou'rt forsaken, and 
The shame sits on thy knee. 

Text Authorship:

  • by William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940), "The flirt", appears in The Song of Life and Other Poems, first published 1920

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?. Leisure  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And [stare]1 as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time, to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like stars at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940), "Leisure", appears in Songs of Joy and Others, first published 1911

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Muße", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Stöhr: "stand"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
Total word count: 230
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