Two Eliot Poems for Voice

Song Cycle by John Gruen (b. 1927)

?. Time and the bell  [sung text not yet checked]

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Time and the bell have buried the day
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?. Eyes that last I saw in tears  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Eyes that last I saw in tears
Through division
Here in death's dream kingdom
The golden vision reappears
I see the eyes but not the tears
This is my affliction

This is my affliction
Eyes I shall not see again
Eyes of decision
Eyes I shall not see unless
At the door of death's other kingdom
Where, as in this,
The eyes outlast a little while
A little while outlast the tears
And hold us in derision.

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First published in Chapbook, November 1924, as one of "Doris' Dream Songs"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 145