by William Watson, Sir (1858 - 1935)
Changed Voices
Language: English
Last night the seawind was to me A metaphor of liberty, And every wave along the beach A starlit music seemed to be. To-day the seawind is to me A fettered soul that would be free, And dumbly striving after speech The tides yearn landward painfully. To-morrow how shall sound for me The changing voice of wind and sea? What tidings shall be borne of each? What rumour of what mystery?
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Text Authorship:
- by William Watson, Sir (1858 - 1935), "Changed Voices" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891 - 1918), "Changed Voices", 1912, from Cycle of Sea Songs, no. 2
Score: Cardiff University Digital Special Collections [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
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