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Castle

Set by Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968), "Castle", first performed 2006 [ baritone and piano ], from The Lay of the Love and Death, no. 3 [Sung Text]

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Rest! To be a guest for once.  ...  
for once to let things happen to one and to know: 
what happens is good. 
 ... 
And to begin again learning what women are. 
And how the white ones do 
and how the blue ones are; 
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It began as a feast. And became a festival, 
one hardly knows how… 
There was a beating of waves in the halls, 
a meeting together and a choosing of each other, 
a parting with each other and a finding again, 
a rejoicing in the radiance and a blinding in the light… 
Out of dark wine and a thousand roses 
runs the hour rushing into the dream of night.

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 ...  he asks a woman, 
who leans to him:
“Are you the night?”
She smiles.
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 ... 
And now he has nothing on. 
And he is naked as a saint. 
Bright and slender.

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Slowly the castle lights go out. Everyone is heavy: 
tired or in love or drunk. 
 ... 
Shorter are the prayers in bed.
But more heartfelt.

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Author(s): [More than can fit here], Margaret Dows Herter Norton (1894 - 1985)