The East Wind (Frederick A. Challinor)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-02). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 822 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The East Wind
Composer: Frederick A. Challinor
Lyricist: Henry Branchcreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1908 Bayley & Ferguson
Description: Songs of the Winds, No. 3.
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Original text and translations
English text
What is the Voice of the Eastern Wind?
A Voice of proud disdain!
“They rede me the rule of a fevered school,
They teach me a swifter gain!
To their hurry and greed I give no heed,
Dogs of a race unclean.
I pore o’er the page of the Olden Age,
I fathom the Vast Unseen,
Let their Legions sweep to the charnel heap,
Let their cannon thunder far!
I lift my hands from the desert sands
To the gleam of the fateful star.
My tent I fold and my spear of gold
Glows in the shimmering heat;
And the Foeman waits at the City gates,
And his drummers idly beat.
With my arms on my breast I take my rest,
Then vanish on lightening feet.”