Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
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English
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, / vaulty, voluminous, . . . stupendous
Evening strains to be time's vast, / womb-of-all, home-of-all, hearse-of-all night.
Her fond yellow hornlight wound to the west, / her wild hollow hoarlight hung to the height
Waste; her earliest stars, earlstars, / stars principal, overbend us,
Fire-featuring heaven. For earth / her being has unbound; her dapple is at an end, as-
tray or aswarm, all throughther, in throngs; / self in self steeped and pashed -- quite
Disremembering, dismembering / all now. Heart, you round me right
With: Our evening is over us; our night / whelms, whelms, and will end us.
Only the beakleaved boughs dragonish / damask the tool-smooth bleak light; black,
Ever so black on it. Our tale, O our oracle! / Let life, waned, ah let life wind
Off her once skeined stained veined variety / upon, all on two spools; part, pen, pack
Now her all in two flocks, two folds -- black, white; / right, wrong; reckon but, reck but, mind
But these two; ware of a world where but these / two tell, each off the other; of a rack
Where, selfwrung, selfstrung, sheathe- and shelterless, / thoughts against thoughts in groans grind.
Note: the typography is reproduced as found in the score (slashes and all). Bartleby.com has some notes on some of the words found in here like "throughther".
Input by T. P. Perrin
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
Date added to the website: 2004-11-22.
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