Cliffs that rise a thousand feet Without a break, Lake that stretches a hundred miles Without a wave, Sands that are white all through the year, Without a stain, Pine-tree woods, winter and summer Ever-green, Streams that for ever flow and flow Without a pause, Trees that for twenty thousand years Your vows have kept, You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveller's heart, And moved his brush to write a new song.
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View text with all available footnotesText Authorship:
- by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969), "Sailing homeward", first published 1919 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chan Fang-Sheng (flourished 4th century) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Sailing homeward", 194-? [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Sailing Homeward", published 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from the Chinese, no. 1, Éd. Durand, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Sailing homeward", 1934 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Annetta Rosser (1938 - 1998), "Sailing homeward", published 1977, from Songs from the Chinese, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by L. Lemierre ; composed by Blair Fairchild.
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