Joël-François Durand, composer

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HOME

She or not

(for solo baritone)

(After Shakespeare 's Sonnet No.109)

O never easy (v) exchanged reign(ed)

 Say ? absence

That (h) absence to

I was absence (seemed)

false absence like

so easy

Of flame

Heart easy as ranged That,

Though

O universe good home

Absence

breast so easy not

could easy Seemed

easy exchanged

myself easy depart

My (y) flame lie

again myself easy to

Of qualify universe

Art lie is frailties (y)!

As soul, Easy as soul (y)

Might I good heart to

I From ranged of my

Myself (y) soul exchanged leave for

Depart exchanged (p) all rose though,

As soul

From

ranged of my

My

Soul of universe lie,

Which home I could heart

In Thy Breast

not home,

ranged, exchanged all, so time

Doth Lie, if exchanged!

That is my home of love.

If I have ranged again easy, again,

Never good easy depart,

 

Like I (k) exchanged, him, in myself;

That him again travels

again, easy love stained;

I return exchanged that universe, not,

Again again, good again in nothing,

Just save thou

To, O the heart exchanged, time I myself exchanged

Not with the heart the heart exchanged, time I myself

exchanged, exchanged.

 

So, O that home again to myself! (y) so easy,

Lie false, return in nothing good,

Water again to exchanged rose.

For, O reigned, my (y) stain,

Thou again, in nature!

Never easy (v),

easy,

rose Believe, easy lie in

exchanged (v) easy.

Though home,

In nature;

That is my home of love.

My Nature

again return,

exchanged, Reigned.

All love leave;

Frailties return

That home again

to Besiege,

easy, so it exchanged,

good, easy.

All Kinds Of Blood lie O,

of depart.

That home again:

That is my home of love.

It could so, O!

Preposterously exchanged,

O say,

To easy return: be

Stained, Thou?

To Leave !

(again: (v) easy)

For O! rose, nothing Of thy heart,

All love leave thy home (y: my, thy?),

Sum might of,

For good O!

For nothing this wide universe I call: art, love, lie;

Save thou, my (y) rose; in it thou, heart of universe, art my all.


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