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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518851" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Centennial Cantata.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Centennial Meditation of Columbia. 1776-1876. A Cantata.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Musical Annotations, in angled brackets, precede each section.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Full chorus: sober, measured and yet majestic progressions of chords.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From this hundred-terraced height,<br>Sight more large with nobler light<br>Ranges down yon towering years.<br>Humbler smiles and lordlier tears<br>Shine and fall, shine and fall,<br>While old voices rise and call<br>Yonder where the to-and-fro<br>Weltering of my Long-Ago<br>Moves about the moveless base<br>Far below my resting-place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Chorus: the sea and the winds mingling their voices with human sighs.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mayflower, Mayflower, slowly hither flying,<br>Trembling westward o'er yon balking sea,<br>Hearts within `Farewell dear England' sighing,<br>Winds without `But dear in vain' replying,<br>Gray-lipp'd waves about thee shouted, crying<br>'No! It shall not be!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Quartette: a meagre and despairing minor.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jamestown, out of thee --<br>Plymouth, thee -- thee, Albany --<br>Winter cries, `Ye freeze:' away!<br>Fever cries, `Ye burn:' away!<br>Hunger cries, `Ye starve:' away!<br>Vengeance cries, `Your graves shall stay!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Full chorus: return of the `motive' of the second movement,<br>but worked up with greater fury, to the climax of the shout<br>at the last line.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then old Shapes and Masks of Things,<br>Framed like Faiths or clothed like Kings<br>Ghosts of Goods once fleshed and fair,<br>Grown foul Bads in alien air --<br>War, and his most noisy lords,<br>Tongued with lithe and poisoned swords --<br>Error, Terror, Rage and Crime,<br>All in a windy night of time<br>Cried to me from land and sea,<br>`No! Thou shalt not be!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[A rapid and intense whisper-chorus.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark!<br>Huguenots whispering `yea' in the dark,<br>Puritans answering `yea' in the dark!<br>`Yea' like an arrow shot true to his mark,<br>Darts through the tyrannous heart of Denial.<br>Patience and Labor and solemn-souled Trial,<br>Foiled, still beginning,<br>Soiled, but not sinning,<br>Toil through the stertorous death of the Night,<br>Toil when wild brother-wars new-dark the Light,<br>Toil, and forgive, and kiss o'er, and replight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Chorus of jubilation, until the appeal of the last two lines<br>introduces a tone of doubt: it then sinks to `pianissimo'.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Praise to God's oft-granted grace,<br>Now Praise to Man's undaunted face,<br>Despite the land, despite the sea,<br>I was: I am: and I shall be --<br>How long, Good Angel, O how long?<br>Sing me from Heaven a man's own song!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Basso solo: the good Angel replies:]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Long as thine Art shall love true love,<br>Long as thy Science truth shall know,<br>Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove,<br>Long as thy Law by law shall grow,<br>Long as thy God is God above,<br>Thy brother every man below,<br>So long, dear Land of all my love,<br>Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Full chorus: jubilation and welcome.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Music, from this height of time my Word unfold:<br>In thy large signals all men's hearts Man's heart behold:<br>Mid-heaven unroll thy chords as friendly flags unfurled,<br>And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q>
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[Musical Annotations, in angled brackets, precede each section.]

[Full chorus: sober, measured and yet majestic progressions of chords.]

From this hundred-terraced height,
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