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'''Published:''' No title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 5. - text from Gitanjali, published 1913. <br> | '''Published:''' No title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 5. - text from Gitanjali, published 1913. <br> |
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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: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: No title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 5. - text from Gitanjali, published 1913.
Description:
External websites:
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"
- Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali"
- Entry at the "Art Song Central" site for "On the Seashore of Endless Worlds"
- Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'
- Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali'
Original text and translations
English text
- 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.