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Four Keats Songs     I.  II.  III.  IV.
(total duration 6')
 
  III. This Living Hand

for Voice and Piano

duration 1
'

Composed for: Joyce Andrews
World Premiere: 1990, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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Joyce Andrews, Soprano;
Neal Goren, Piano
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Text:
 
 

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed, see here it is—
I hold it towards you.

                                                                         John Keats