Mother - Water, she arose She disappeared in the moon Which had lifted her Which had given her birth
Masquerading solemn beauty As in a ray of the moon's light Doth her pale skin gleam As an orchid of the deepest seas
(So spoke he weeping, and his lady mother heard him as she sate in the sea-depths beside her aged sire. With speed arose she from the grey sea, like a mist, and sate her before the face of her weeping son, and stroked him with her hand, and spoke and called on his name: 'My child, why weepest thou? What sorrow hath entered into thy heart? Speak it forth, hide it not in thy mind, that both may know it.')
Music written during nineteen hundred and ninety seven and ninety eight. Lyrics written during nineteen hundred and ninety seven.