The Celestial Weaver
Music: Granville Bantock (1868–1946) · Words: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872–1945) · lyricist: Han-ching T'ung
A thing of stone beside Lake Kouenming Has
for a thousand autumns borne the name Of the
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The words
A thing of stone beside Lake Kouenming Has
for a thousand autumns borne the name Of the
Celestial Weaver.
Like that star She shines above the waters,
wondering At her pale loveliness
Unnumbered waves Have broidered with green
moss the marble folds About her feet.
Toiling e- ternally
They knock the stone,
like tireless shuttles plied Upon a sounding
loom.
Her pearly locks Re- semble snowcoils on the
mountain top;
Her eyebrows arch the crescent moon.
A smile Lies in the opened lily of her face;
And, since she breathes not,
(being stone),
the birds Light on her shoulders,
flutter without fear At her still breast.
Immovable she stands Before the shining
mirror of her charms,
And, gazing on their beauty, lets the years
Slip into centuries past her. gazing on
their beauty,
About this song
- Music
- Granville Bantock (1868–1946) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872–1945) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- lyricist
- Han-ching T'ung
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1918, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 5:18
- Its source files it as
- 5 Songs from the Chinese Poets, 1st Series
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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