2019

Berkshire Twilight (op. 135, no. 2)

Composed by Lowell Liebermann

Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135 Song Collection

"Berkshire Twilight" is the second song of Lowell Liebermann's song cycle Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer,, op. 135.

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Berkshire Twilight

By Jean Starr Untermeyer

 

These autumn hills have their sadness.

So have I,

 

When a shadow crosses my spirit

And I neither live nor die.

 

Evening drops over their peaks

And chars their flame.

Their color sifts into grayness.

With me it is the same.