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© by Jeffery Beam

Millennium Approaches
 (Sung text for setting by L. Hoiby)
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Language: English 
That the world is painfully beautiful painfully sad
That spent blossoms recall earth under which they once slept
Remembering air into which they now fall

Composition:

    Set to music by Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "Millennium Approaches", 2001 [ voice, violoncello, and piano ], from The Life of the Bee, no. 1

Text Authorship:

  • by Jeffery Beam , "Millennium approaches", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Researcher for this page: Jeffery Beam

This text was added to the website: 2009-10-29
Line count: 3
Word count: 25

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