Nocturne – Four Songs IV
Samuel Barber
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Performed by Lisette Oropesa, Soprano and Vlad Iftinca, Piano
March 11th 2017
Vocal Arts DC
Theatre of the Arts at the University of DC
Recorded by Arts Laureate
Dress provided by Austin Scarlett
TEXT:
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Four Songs, Op. 13: IV. Nocturne
Text by Frederic Prokosch
Nocturne
Close my darling both your eyes,
Let your arms lie still at last.
Calm the lake of falsehood lies
And the wind of lust has passed,
Waves across these hopeless sands
Fill my heart and end my day,
Underneath your moving hands
All my aching flows away.
Even the human pyramids
Blaze with such a longing now:
Close, my love, your trembling lids,
Let the midnight heal your brow,
Northward flames Orion’s horn,
Westward th’ Egyptian light.
None to watch us, none to warn
But the blind eternal night.
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