Three Songs Of William Butler Yeats (1989) by Jeffrey Bernstein published on 2013-12-05T05:44:09Z 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. Genre Jeffrey Bernstein