It's true that we've been dusty at times, friends, yes [ ... ]
From the Heartland
Song Cycle by Kirke Mechem (b. 1925)
1. Dust (Recitative and aria)  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
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- by Kirke Field Mechem (1889 - 1985), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Note: the text is preceded by the following: (The other day [about 1940] a New England paper ran a story about the dust-storm years in Kansas and said it was doubtful at the time if the state would survive them. Then a west coast editor asked if anybody had checked on that lately. Since then, similar remarks have been bandied about the country.)
2. Shadows of the moon (Elegy)  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Night falls, star-silent. Even the cottonwood trees [ ... ]
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- by Kirke Field Mechem (1889 - 1985), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.3. I could hear the least bird sing  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
In my boyhood, in the spring [ ... ]
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- by Kirke Field Mechem (1889 - 1985), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.4. Declaration  [sung text checked 1 time]
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Let us gather now, my friends, and consider [ ... ]
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- by Kirke Field Mechem (1889 - 1985), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Total word count: 530