E4TT Day that I have Loved (2011) by Justin Henry Rubin (b. 1967)

Day That I Have Loved (Adapted/excerpted text) by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes,
And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands.
The grey veils of the half-light deepen; colour dies.
I bear you, a light burden, to the shrouded sands,
Where lies your waiting boat, by wreaths of the sea…
With all grey weeds of the water crowned.
There you’ll be laid, past fear of sleep or hope of waking;
And over the unmoving sea, without a sound,
Beyond the marble sand…. unkissed, unfriended there

Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Anne Lerner-Wright, cello; Dale Tsang, piano

Performed at Old First Concerts June 4, 2017.

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