Fair is the pine grove (Cranmer-Byng, set by G. Branscombe) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream
That gathers to the valley far below,
The black-winged junks on the dim sea reach, adream,
The pale blue firmament o'er banks of snow.
And her, more fair, more supple smooth than jade,
Gleaming among the dark red woods I follow:
Now lingering, now as a bird afraid
Of pirate wings she seeks the haven hollow.
Vague, and beyond the daylight of recall,
Into the cloudland past my spirit flies,
As though before the gold of autumn's fall,
Before the glow of the moon-flooded skies.

Authorship

Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945)

A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China

Based on

text

Sikong-Tu (834-903?8?)

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

Gena Branscombe (1881-1977)

A Lute of Jade

Date added to the website: 2008-07-05.

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