Living in retirement beyond the World, Silently enjoying isolation, I pull the rope of my door tighter And stuff my window with roots and ferns. My spirit is tuned to the Spring-season: At the fall of the year there is autumn in my heart. Thus imitating cosmic changes My cottage becomes a Universe.
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Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969), "The Valley Wind", appears in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, first published 1919 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Lu Yün (flourished 4th century CE) [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):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Hungarian (Magyar), a translation by Dezső Kosztolányi (1885 - 1936) , "Völgyi lak" ; composed by Zoltán Horusitzky.
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