When the World Is Laid Waste
Music: Mathis der Maler: 2nd Movement
(Grablegung).
By Paul Hindemith. Sequenced by David
Siu at Kunst der Fuge
.
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When the world is
laid waste, And its celebrants
are cinders, And its clothes ashes;
When it is once
again a dead
rock, Like the rock that
encircles it, Its dust open to the poisonous wind;
When we have
wrought what we've
wrought And done what we've
done, And there is no one left to look back in sorrow or anger:
Ah, then, what a song will never be sung! |
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