Three Rilke Songs

Song Cycle by Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

1. From "Requiem"
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
I'll simply watch the animals
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2. I am, you anxious one
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
I am, you anxious one
Do you not hear me rush to claim you with each eager sense?
And now my feelings have found wings,
And circling whitely fly about your countenance.
And here my spirit in its dress still stands before you,
Oh, do you not see?
In your glance does not my Maytime prayer
Grow to ripeness as upon a tree?

Dreamer, it is I who am your dream
But when you wake, I am your will
And master of all pleasure and I grow to a sphere,
Like stars poised high and still
With time's sing'lar city stretched below.

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3. If I had grown up
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If I had grown up in a land
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