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Poem by Marie Keyser - one of the first poems I ever set to music, with the first rising sixth interval ever in my mind

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Entends mon chant d'exil [English translation below]
et comme avec patience
ensevelie en terre hostile je désapprends la respiration
l'instant et toute presence humaine

du royaume au bord du temps
ils m'ont arrachée de l'aube

et maintenant le temps sévit
le mal de terre est profond
jamais la nuit n'atteint l'aurore

inachevés abolis nous reposons
mais je me souviens

entends mon chant d'exil
et le déchirement

au royaume lointain au bord du temps
s'accomplit la naissance

et le premier vertige de voir
d'entendre et de de toucher le monde

ploie l'adolescence alanguie enclose en elle

l'île a fleur de mer au chant d'écume éphemère
et renouvelé

et l'envol s'accomplit vers le point d'aube

où le premier chant indécis de la grive musicienne
délie les sources dormeuses,
le vent et l'envie d'aller

les arbres vont en cortège devant

entends mon chant de retour et le cheminement....

mais pourquoi l'exil revient-il,
briser l'allégeance
condamner les jardins et les demeures
et dicter à nouveau l'errance

j'entends par mes déchirures
les rumeurs humaines et l'arrêt de mort
de l'instant convalescent

ils m'ont arrachée de l'aube....

tu dis que le château
entre les bouleaux frêles
regarde la vallée entière
de l'aube a la nuit

et déjà ériges la tour

où dormir ou demeurer où vivre déliée
de la mélancholie

mais les fleurs dorment sous la terre
semées par milliers dans le jardin balsamaire.


[English translation]

Hear my song of exile and how, patiently,
buried in hostile earth
I learn how to forget breath
the moment and human presence
from the kingdom on the borders of time
they have ripped me from the dawn
and now time is raging
I long to return to earth
Night will never reach the dawn
Incomplete, wiped out, we rest
but I remember
hear my song of exile, how it tears me

in the far off kingdom on the border of time
the birth is completed
and we first dizzily hear, see and touch the world
languishing we grow towards the adult but we are enclosed in ourselves
the island just touching the sea
singing the renewed song of the foam that lasts but a day
and fly toward the first hint of dawn
where the first uncertain song of the thrush
releases the sleepy water springs, the wind and the desire to go
the a consort of trees goes before them

hear my song of return and the journeying....

but why does exile come back, breaking the allegiance
condemning the gardens, the dwelling places,
and ordering me once more me to wander

I hear, through the tearing,
human sounds
and the deadly stopping of the moment of recovery

they have ripped me from the dawn....

you say that the manor house between the fragile birch trees
looks over the whole valley from dawn to night
and already you build up the tower
where I may sleep or stay
where I may live released from my sadness

but the flowers sleep under the earth
sown in their thousands in the perfumed garden.

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from Romantic Inspirations, released February 27, 2015

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David Warin Solomons Sale, UK

Composer from UK born in 1953, concentrating on lyrical and tonal works for chamber music combinations, solo voice and choral works.

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