Injunction

Songs of Job’s Daughter Song Collection

Injuction is the first song from Winifred Hyson's Songs of Job's Daughter song cycle with original text by Jean Starr Untermeyer.

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Injunction

By Jean Starr Untermeyer

Mix the lyric water

Of the movement that is song

With the sandy stuff of thought,

So that something may be wrought

Concrete from the flux of pain,

Some small monument remain

Of her, who was Job’s own daughter,

Unterrestrial and strong

Records

2017

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