Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After
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Album Winter Words, Op. 52
- #1Winter Words, Op. 52: 1. At Day-close in November
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- #2Winter Words, Op. 52: 2. Midnight on the Great Western (The Journeying Boy)
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- #3Winter Words, Op. 52: 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
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- #4The Little Old Table
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- #5Winter Words, Op. 52: 5. The Choirmaster’s Burial
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- #6Winter Words, Op. 52: 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
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- #7Winter Words, Op. 52: 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
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- #8Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After
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Benjamin BrittenWinter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After Lyrics
A time there was—as one may guess
And as, indeed, earth’s testimonies tell—
Before the birth of consciousness
When all went well
None suffered sickness, love, or loss
None knew regret, starved hope, or heart-burnings;
None cared whatever crash or cross
Brought wrack to things
If something ceased, no tongue bewailed
If something winced and waned, no heart was wrung;
If brightnеss dimmed, and dark prevailed
No sеnse was stung
But the disease of feeling germed
And primal rightness took the tinct of wrong:
Ere nescience shall be reaffirmed
How long, how long?
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Winter Words, Op. 52: 8. Before Life and After was written by Benjamin Britten & Thomas Hardy.
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