Dream fantasy (Macleod, set by J. Hawes) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


There is a land of Dream;
I have trodden its golden ways:
I have seen its amber light
From the heart of its sun-swept days;
I have seen its moonshine white
On its silent waters gleam -- 
Ah, the strange sweet lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.
Ah, in that Land of Dream,
The mystical moon-white land,
Comes from what unknown sea -- 
Adream on what unknown strand -- 
A sound as of feet that flee,
As of multitudes that stream
From the shores of that shadowy sea
Through the Valleys of Dream.
It is dark in the Land of Dream.
There is silence in all the Land.
Are the dead all gathered there -- 
In havens, by no breath fanned?
This stir i' the dawn, this chill wan air -- 
This faint dim yellow of morning-gleam -- 
O is this sleep, or waking where
Lie hush'd the Valleys of Dream?

Authorship

Fiona Macleod (1885-1905) [pseudonym]

From the Hills of Dream

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

Jack Hawes (1916-)

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

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