by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)

Language: English 
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4. The mountain stirr'd its bushy crown,
And, as tradition teaches,
Young ashes pirouetted down
Coquetting with young beeches;
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7. And wasn't it a sight to see,
When, ere his song was ended,
Like some great landslip, tree by tree,
The country-side descended;
And shepherds from the mountain-eaves
Look'd down, half-pleased, half-frighten'd,
As dash'd about the drunken leaves
The random sunshine lighten'd!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "From Amphion", 1896, published 1921, stanzas 4:1-4,7 [ voice and piano ]

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