Are you the new person? (Whitman, set by N. Rorem) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Are you the new person drawn toward me?
 To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
 Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
 Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
 Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
 Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
 Do you see no further than this facade, this smooth and tolerant
 manner of me?
 Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
 Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?

Authorship

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Ned Rorem (1923-)

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