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Black swans on the Murray Lagoons

Language: English

The long lagoons lie white and still
Beneath the great round Austral moon:
The sudden dawn will waken soon
With many a delicious thrill:
Between this death and life the cries,
Of black swans ring through silent skie --
    And the long wash of the slow stream
    Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream.


Authorship

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

    * by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "Black swans on the Murray Lagoons", op. 69 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set III) no. 4 (1927). [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-08-17.

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