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Guardian Angel
03:05
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When my soul lay awake late last night, did it seem
That I saw my good angel come down as in a dream,
Engirdled with moonlight and silver star gleam,
And hover above me with wings wide outspread.
But you, when he spied, in your snowy white dress,
O child of sweet wonder, and secret caress,
Quite awed and astonished my guardian fled.
Good child, are you demon that just at one glance
Of your eyes through their lashes thrown softly askance
My angel and friend left his long vigilance?
O guardian angel, come back, do not flee
For this girl... But no, let your long lashes fall,
That your pale lovely features again I recall,
For you... you are he.
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Sonnet/Loving in Secret
02:46
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Loving in secret, I did silence hold
Deeming in this your clemency would dwell,
For when my searching eyes on yours fell
A world of shattered dreams they did behold.
I can no more. My aching love must tell
The mystery that does my heart enfold,
I wish I could drown within the radiance cold
Of that sweet soul that knows my own so well.
But look, my lips are parched with despair,
A thirsty fever does my eyes infest,
Sweet maiden, you, with long and golden hair.
But let your gentle breath my anguish wrest,
Your smile, with drunken joy, my soul ensnare;
Oh, end my pain at last... come to my breast.
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Drowsy Birds
03:45
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Drowsy birds at even gliding,
Round about their nests alight,
In among the branches hiding...
Dear, good night!
Silence through the forest creeping,
Lullaby the river sighs;
In the garden flowers sleeping...
Shut your eyes!
Glides the swan among the rushes
To its rest where moonlight gleams,
And the angels whisper hushes...
Peaceful dreams!
O'er the sky stars without number,
On the earth a silver light;
All is harmony and slumber...
Dear, good night!
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4. |
You Never Knew My Soul
02:55
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For me in all existence nowhere such wealth abides
As in the tender secret your gentle beauty hides;
For on what other wonder than that of your sweet charm
Would I a lifetime squander of meditation calm
On legends and on musing, and thus a language mould
That it with fleeting cadence your loveliness enfold
With chains of flowing images, and on it dreams bestow
That it ne'er till time's ending shall to the darkness go?
Today when all my being to your being is bound,
When hid in every sorrow for me a joy is found;
When you to me more lovely than marble do appear
And in your eye is kindled a ray of starlight clear
That while I gaze upon you I feel I must go blind
With so much shining wonder that floods upon my mind;
Today when is my longing so tender and so true
As is the very charm itself that does your form endue,
And stronger is the yearning that our two hearts have known
Than light that yearns for darkness, the chisel for the stone;
When my desire is boundless, so gentle and so high
As on the earth is nowhere, and nowhere in the sky;
When everything about you for me is magic spell,
A smile, a word, a gesture, no matter ill or well;
When you are the enigma of life for me the whole,
Your words now show me plainly you never knew my soul.
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5. |
One Wish Alone Have I
03:56
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One wish alone have I:
In some calm land
Beside the sea to die;
Upon its strand
That I forever sleep,
The forest near,
A heaven clear
Stretched o'er the peaceful deep.
No candles shine,
Nor tomb I need, instead
Let them for me a bed
Of twigs entwine.
That no one weeps my end,
Nor for me grieves,
But let the autumn lend
Tongues to the leaves,
When brooklet ripples fall
With murmuring sound,
And moon is found
Among the pine-trees tall,
While softly rings
The wind its trembling chime
And over me the lime
Its blossom flings.
As I will then no more
A wanderer be,
Let them with fondness store
My memory.
And Lucifer the while,
Above the pine,
Good comrade mine,
Will on me gently smile;
In mournful mood,
The sea sing sad refrain. . .
And I be earth again
In solitude.
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Adina Nelu Manchester, UK
Romanian-born composer for film and media whose work explores the boundaries between narrative-driven music and sonic
storytelling.
Commissioned by the likes of BBC New Creatives and the GMCA, she is a HMUK Do it Differently Fund awardee and was recently selected for BAFTA Crew 2021.
Currently developing a female-centred vocal EP with the support of Help Musicians UK.
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