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*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15559 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn". ] | *[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15559 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn". ] | ||
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*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'.] | *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'.] | ||
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CPDL #17513: 
- Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-11). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 125 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 125 KB.
General Information
Title: I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
Composer: John Alden Carpenter
Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: Music: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), no title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 4. - Lyrics: by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) , from Gitanjali, published 1913.
Description:
External websites:
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "I am like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn".
- Entry at the "Art Song Central" site for "The Sleep that flits on Baby's Eyes".
- Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali".
- Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'.
- Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali'.
Original text and translations
English text
- I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn
- uselessly roaming in the sky,
- O my sun ever-glorious!
- Thy touch has not yet melted my vapour,
- making me one with thy light,
- and thus I count mounts and years separated from thee.
- If this be thy wish and if this be thy play,
- then take this fleeting emptiness of mine,
- paint it with colours, gild it with gold,
- float it on the wanton wind and spread it in varied wonders.
- And again, when it shall be thy wish to end this play at night,
- I shall melt and vanish away in the dark,
- or it may be in a smile of the white morning,
- in a coolness of purity transparent.
- Lyrics: by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) , from Gitanjali, published 1913.