Three Songs Of William Butler Yeats (1989) by Jeffrey Bernstein

Composed 1989 by Jeffrey Bernstein (ASCAP). Text by William Butler Yeats. Performed at Harvard University May 1989 by Karen Thompson, soprano and Noam D. Elkies, pianist. Copyright © 1989 Corduroy Fifths Music Publishing.

1. The Moods
Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and the woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away?

2. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

3. The Song of Wandering Aengus
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; 20
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.