Mo Zhao - Torch Songs (Dickinson and W.B Yeats)
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Baritone - Peter Fallon Brown
Piano - Peter Nelson-King
Music by Mo Zhao
Performed on March 21st in Boston University CFA Concert Hall
No. 2 "Why do I love" You, Sir? (Emily Dickinson)
"Why do I love" You, Sir?
Because—
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer—Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.
Because He knows—and
Do not You—
And We know not—
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so—
The Lightning—never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut—when He was by—
Because He knows it cannot speak—
And reasons not contained—
—Of Talk—
There be—preferred by Daintier Folk—
The Sunrise—Sire—compelleth Me—
Because He's Sunrise—and I see—
Therefore—Then—
I love Thee—
03 O Do Not Love Too Long (W.B Yeats)
SWEETHEART, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one.
But O, in a minute she changed -
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.
Art belong to their respective creators
Pastoral Landscape, Asher Brown Durand, 1861
Second image by its original artist