by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Sea sunsets, give us keepsakes
Language: English
Sea sunsets, give us keepsakes. Prairie gloamings, pay us for prayers. Mountain clouds on bronze skies – Give us great memories. Let us have summer roses. Let us have tawny harvest haze in pumpkin time. Let us have springtime faces to toil for and play for. Let us have the fun of booming winds on long waters. Give us dreamy blue twilights – of winter evenings – to wrap us in a coat of dreaminess. Moonlight, come down – shine down, moonlight – meet every bird cry and every song calling to a hard old earth, a sweet young earth.
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- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) [author's text not yet checked 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 Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "Great Memories", published 1950 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Singing Earth, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vally Weigl, née Pick (c1894 - 1982), "Sea sunsets" [ women's chorus, piano, flute (or clarinet or violin) obbligato ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2021-10-10
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