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bill kennedy DTStudy: Wandering Angus(Golden Apples of the Sun) (15) Lyr Add: THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS (W B Yeats) 31 May 02


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beginning with the correct title:

THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

taken from the Varorium Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, as the final corrected definitive edition as published in 1949.

Poem first published by William Butler Yeats in 'The Sketch' August 4, 1897; first collected in 'The Wind Among the Reeds', 1899; appears in McClure's Magazine, March 1905; alternately titled by Yeats as 'A Mad Song' in 'Stories of Red Hanrahan', 1904; appears untitled in the story 'Hanrahan's Vision'; The first stanza appears in Yeat's Essay 'Speaking to the Psaltery' originally published in final form in 1907, with musical notation taken down from the chanting of Yeats himself by Arnold Dolmetsch. This air is the basis for all of the airs given as 'Traditional', though some variations have occurred over time. The earliest recording of the song is by Burl Ives, 1958, learned as he says on the sleeve notes from the actress Sara Allgood, a contemporary of Yeats, from whom she learned it. A complete discography to date can be found in this thread ..... blue clicky thing please?

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