2019
Mist (op. 135, no. 4)
Composed by 
Lowell Liebermann
Lowell Liebermann Text by 
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Jean Starr Untermeyer Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135 Song Collection
"Mist" is the fourth song of Lowell Liebermann's song cycle Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer,, op. 135.
Text
Mist
By Jean Starr Untermeyer
There is a mist over this lake.
It shrouds the colors and the sounds as well;
It is wrapped over the hills like a strong veil
It blurs the patterns that the pine-trees make, lace- woven over the sky.
Old Sun, you can not pierce it;
As I look at you, you seem no more than a brightly- cloudy glass sphere.
Little birds, your chirring is dull…
A cow-bell, clanking in the woods,
Has the muffled music of minor thirds.
Oh mist, you have lessened everything.
Even my longing is choked within my breast;
I can find no song for it.