Sailing Homeward (Waley, set by C. Gibbs, A. Rosser) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Cliffs that rise a thousand feet
 Without a break,
 Lake that stretches a hundred miles
 Without a wave,
 Pine-tree woods winter and summer
 Evergreen,
 Streams that for ever flow and flow
 Without a pause,
 Trees that for twenty thousand years
 Your vows have kept,
 You have suddenly healed the pain of a traveller's heart,
 And moved his brush to write a new song.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Arthur Waley (1889-1969)

Based on

text

Chan Fang-Sheng (4^th century)

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

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960)

Annetta Rosser (1938-1998)

Songs from the Chinese

Date added to the website: 2003-11-15.

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