# The Celestial Weaver

- Music: Granville Bantock (died 1946)
- Words: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (died 1945)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6211559

## 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,  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).