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*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=541 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"]
*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=541 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"]
*[http://artsongcentral.com/2007/gitanjali/ Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali"]
*[{{website|artsong}}2007/gitanjali/ Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali"]
*[http://artsongcentral.com/2007/carpenter-on-the-seashore-of-endless-worlds/ Entry at the "Art Song Central" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"]
*[{{website|artsong}}2007/carpenter-on-the-seashore-of-endless-worlds/ Entry at the "Art Song Central" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"]
*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings']
*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings']
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjali Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali']
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjali Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali']

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Editor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-12).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 125 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central.

General Information

Title: On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
Composer: John Alden Carpenter
Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo

Genre: SecularAria

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: No title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 5. - text from Gitanjali, published 1913.

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Original text and translations

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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless
overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds
the children meet with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand and they play with empty shells. With withered
leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children
have their play on the seashore of worlds.
They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl fishers dive for
pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter
them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.
The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.
Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother
while rocking her baby’s cradle. The sea play with children, and pale gleams the
smile of the sea-beach.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless
sky, ships get wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play.
On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children.