Friday, 12 January 2024

#1474 - Fingal's Cave

 


1474

5.13

13.i.24

Fingal’s Cave

for concert pieces

 

why, thou breeze of the valley, hast thou left mine ear?

I hear no distant roar of streams!

No sound of the harp from the rock! 

                             – James McPherson’s Ossian

 

 

sea is a conch in the great roar of time

wings scud colour and bravely

 

sail capers

of daring from this shield

 

two clarinets, bassoons

 

salt surge

a blind bard sings

this blow about

timpani roll 

 

haul of spray

fishwhiff

 

mast is a tree to the night

and touch stars

 

ebb swell

 

trumpets

gather sky to the rocks

pipes drowned hill high far

 

reel on the deck till

 

sweet this dark

where waters still

 

on such a day

no landing














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