by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879 - 1958)
Tremulous grey of dusk
Language: English
I. Tremulous grey of dusk, Deepening into the blue, It is the path that leads Ever to you. Child of the dusk, your eyes euietly light my way, uiet as evening stars, Quiet and grey. All the magic of dusk, Tremulous, grey and blue, Gathers into my heart, Quiet for you. II. Child, I thought that we two by some grey sea Went walking very quietly, hand in hand, By a grey sea along a silent strand, And you had turned your eyes away from me To where grey clouds, uplifted mightily, Made on the far horizon a silver land, And I would not recall your eyes to me, Because I knew from your shy clasping hand How joy within your heart, a wanderer long, Outwearied now had come, a nesting bird, And folded there his wings, too glad for song ; And so I knew at last that you had heard Through the long miles of grey sea-folding mist, Soft as the breast of some glad nesting dove, Fiom grey lips grown articulate, twilight-kissed, All the secret of my unuttered love.
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Also titled "The grey dusk" in some publications.Text Authorship:
- by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879 - 1958), "The path", appears in The Twilight People, first published 1905 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Tremulous grey of dusk", 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Three short songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-03
Line count: 30
Word count: 182