1993
I Will Be Earth
Composed by 
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker Text by 
May Swenson
May Swenson Mornings Innocent Song Collection
"I Will Be Earth" is the fourth and final song of Gwyneth Walker's song cycle Mornings Innocent, which sets four poems of May Swenson.
Text
I Will Be Earth
by May Swenson
I will be earth, you be the flower,
You have found my root, you are the rain,
I will be boat, and you the rower.
You rock me and toss me, you are the sea.
How be steady earth that is now a flood.
The root is the oar afloat where has blown our bud.
We will be desert, pure salt the seed.
Burn radiant love, born scorpion need.
Related Information
Information about Mornings Innocent on Gwyneth Walker's Website
gwynethwalker.com/morningi.htmlSheet Music
Mornings Innocent
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
1. Women Should Be Pedestals
2. Mornings Innocent
3. In Autumn
4. I Will Be Earth
2. Mornings Innocent
3. In Autumn
4. I Will Be Earth
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