Джон Кейдж (John Cage) - The Wonderful Widow… / Nowth upon Nacht | Текст песни

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«The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs»
«Nowth upon Nacht» for (high) voice and piano
texts from «Finnegans Wake» by James Joyce

Joan La Barbara (voice)
William Winant (piano)
California, Skywalker Music, July 1990

night by silent sailing night,
Isobel,
wildwoods eyes and primarose hair,
quietly,
all the woods so wild
in mauves of moss and daphne dews
how all so still she lay
'neath of the white thorn,
child of tree
like some lost happy leaf
like blowing flower stilled
as fain would she anon
for soon again 'twill be,
win me, woo me, wed me,
ah! weary me
deepy,
now even calm lay sleeping
night,
Isobel,
Sister Isobel,
Saintette Isobel,
Madame Isa Veuve La Belle.

nowth upon nacht, while in his tumbril Wachtman Havelook
seequeerscenes, from yonsides of the choppy, punkt by his
curserbog, went long the grassgross bumpinstrass that henders
the pubbel to pass, stowing his bottle in a hole for at whet his
whuskle to stench ecrooksman, sequestering for lover's lost pro-
pertied offices the leavethings from allpurgers' night, og gneiss
ogas gnasty, kikkers, brillers, knappers and bands, handsboon
and strumpers, sminkysticks and eddiketsflaskers.