MOONSET
mvt 1 from “Fire Flowers”
recorded by the composer and his wife, Allison at home
Moonset is one movement from a set of six. Visit Don’s website to learn more.
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LYRICS
Idles the night wind through the dreaming firs,
That waking murmur low,
As some lost melody returning stirs
The love of long ago;
And through the far, cool distance, zephyr fanned.
The moon is sinking into shadow-land.
The troubled night-bird, calling plaintively,
Wanders on restless wing;
The cedars, chanting vespers to the sea,
Await its answering,
That comes in wash of waves along the strand,
The while the moon slips into shadow-land.
O! soft responsive voices of the night
I join your minstrelsy,
And call across the fading silver light
As something calls to me;
I may not all your meaning understand,
But I have touched your soul in shadow-land.
Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
Canadian poet of the Mohawk Nation
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