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Wanting is ‑‑ what?

Language: English

Wanting is -- what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
 -- Where is the blot?
Beamy the world, yet a blank all the same,
 -- Framework which waits for a picture to frame:
What of the leafage, what of the flower?
Roses embowering with nought they embower!
Come then, complete incompletion, O comer,
Pant through the blueness, perfect the summer!
Breathe but one breath
Rose-beauty above.
And all that was death
Grows life, grows love,
Grows love!


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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: 2009-02-26.

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