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Songs and Song Cycles
The Second Coming
Soprano, piano
Year Written: 2014
Duration: 4:00
Theme: Spiritual
DEVELOPED BY DUMASTAR
Premiered By
Nancy Ogle, soprano; Ginger Hwalek, piano; University of Maine, Orono, 2014
Text: William Butler Yeats
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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