The moon drops low (Eberhart, set by C. Cadman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


The moon drops low that once soared high
  As an eagle soars in the morning sky;
And the deep dark lies like a death-web spun
  'Twixt the setting moon and the rising sun.

Our glory sets like the sinking moon;
  The Red Man's race shall be perished soon;
Our feet shall trip where the web is spun,
  For no dawn shall be ours, and no rising sun.

Input by Geoffrey Wieting

Authorship

Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

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

Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946)

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