by Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881)
A song of the future
Language: English
Sail fast, sail fast, Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams; Sweep lordly o'er the drownèd Past, Fly glittering through the sun's strange beams; Sail fast, sail fast. Breaths of new buds from off some drying lea With news about the Future scent the sea: My brain is beating like the heart of Haste; I'll loose me a bird upon this Present waste; Go, trembling song, And stay not long; oh, stay not long: Thou'rt only a gray and sober dove, But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.
Authorship:
- by Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881), "A song of the future" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Bruce Trinkley (b. 1945), "A song of the future", from Sidney Lanier Songs, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-01-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 92