The wind (Gibson, set by W. Wordsworth) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


To the lean clean land, to the last cold height
you shall come with a whickering breath
from the depths of despair or the depths of delight
stript stark to the wind of death.

And whether you're sinless, or whether you've sinned,
it's useless to whimper and whine,
for the lean clean blade of the cutthroat wind
will slit your weasand and mine.

Input by John Versmoren

Authorship

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962)

Thoroughfares

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

William B. Wordsworth (1908-1988)

Three songs

Date added to the website: 2004-07-07.

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