Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Charles Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge Poem by Robert Underwood Johnson


The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Contented river in thy dreamy realm
The cloudy willow and the plumy elm:
Thou beautiful! from ev'ry dreamy hill
What eye but wanders with thee at thy will.

Contented river! And yet overshy
To mask thy beauty from the eager eye;
Hast thou a thought to hide from field and town?
In some deep current of the sunlit brown.

Ah! there's a restive ripple,
And kind the swift red leaves
September's firstlings faster drift;
Wouldst thou away, dear stream?

Come, whisper near!
I also of much resting have a fear;
Let me tomorrow thy companion be,
By fall and shallow to the adventurous sea!

Thomas Hampson Baritone
J e a n - Yve s T h i b a u d e t , piano
L o n d o n S ymp h o ny O rc h e s t ra
Michael Tilson Thomas Conductor


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