The wind that comes, the wind that goes, Never tells me what it knows. The wind is witness of all things Of water's birth, of Saturn's rings, Of sin's undoing, of love's laws, And revolutions without cause But still my face is famine lean; The wind that sees cannot be seen. If I could turn a sudden head, sidewise, perhaps, as the wind sped And its dark edges rippled by, I might grow wise enough to die. But here I stand and only know: Wind come, wind go.
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Authorship:
- by Mark van Doren (1894 - 1972) [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Dunce's Song", 1968, published 1982 [ medium voice and piano ], San Antonio, TX: Southern Music Co. (2001) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Bamford Lane (1933 - 2004), "Dunce's Song", published 1957, from Four Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2019-04-18
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