by Bai Juyi (772 - 846)
Translation © by George X. Fu
Ease
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
Lined coat, warm cap, felt slippers [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by George X. Fu , written 2018, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Bai Juyi (772 - 846), written c844 [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):
- by Freya Waley-Cohen (b. 1989), "Ease", subtitle: "(Or a poem about how things are now)", 2018 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Happiness, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
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