MOTHER Lully, lullay, my child, my lamb Head of gold, read as the sun is red Who when the long day is done Tugs boots off, draws wool night-cap on, Then pulls the blankets up over his head. Lully, lullay. ... GODMAMMA On a horse? ... GODMAMMA Soon or late must come last My prince… Hoofs of fire! Eyes so wild Whose black hair streams in the black blast… Weeping she said ‘Sleep, sleep my child’ ... PETER I hear hoofs. ... VOICE WITHOUT Once. Twice. ... GODMAMMA A bargain with you, Death. ... DEATH Now. ... DEATH No! It is time! ... MOTHER He’s laughing.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with The Rider by Night. Play in one act by Edward Lightfoot (to be performed with musical accompaniment), ed. by Marc-André Roberge, Bath: The Sorabji Archive; critical edition (as part of a critical edition for the corresponding work by K. S. Sorabji), 2008, pages 54-57, 59, 61, 65-66. Excerpts as set by K. S. Sorabji. These excerpts appear as sung text or spoken cues in Sorabji’s extant manuscript (pages 21-40 of Sorabji's manuscript are missing). Text that is spoken in Sorabji’s setting rather than sung is formatted here in italics.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (1893 - 1944), as Edward Lightfoot, no title, written 1919, appears in The Rider by Night, first published 2008 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Music to "The Rider by Night"", KSS 22 (1919), published 2008 [ orchestra and voices ], Bath, The Sorabji Archive; critical edition [sung text checked 1 time]
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