by Macedonius of Thessalonica (c500 - 560)
Translation by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)
Language: English after the Greek (Ελληνικά)
To-morrow? Then your one word left is always now the same; And that's a word that names a day that has no more a name. To-morrow, I have learned at last, is all you have to give: The rest will be another's now, as long as I may live. You will see me in the evening? -- And what evening has there been, Since time began with women, but old age and wrinkled skin?
Composition:
- Set to music by Frank Lewin (1925 - 2008), "To-morrow", published 1975 [ mezzo-soprano or contralto, flute, viola, harp, and piano ], from Variations of Greek Themes, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935), "To-morrow", appears in Captain Craig, in Variations of Greek Themes, no. 9, first published 1902
Based on:
- a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Macedonius of Thessalonica (c500 - 560) [text unavailable]
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Word count: 73