2008
The Point
Composed by 
Tom Cipullo
Tom Cipullo Text by 
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden America 1968 Song Collection
"The Point" is the third song of Tom Cipullo's song cycle America 1968. This same song is also the sixth song of Tom Cipullo's song cycle Climbing: 7 Songs on 8 Poems by African-Americans.
Text
The Point (Stonington, Connecticut)
by Robert Hayden
Land’s end. And sound and river come
together, flowing to the sea.
Wild swans, the first I’ve ever seen,
cross the Point in translucent flight.
On lowtide rocks terns gather;
sunbathers gather on the lambent shore.
All for a moment seems inscribed
on brightness, as on sunlit
bronze and stone, here at land’s end,
praise for dead patriots of Stonington;
we are for an instant held in shining
like memories in the mind of God.
Related Information
Andrew Garland
andrewgarland.com/bm/lac/america-1968.shtmlSheet Music
America 1968
Tom Cipullo
1. Monet's Water Lilies
2. Hey Nonny No
3. The Point
4. The Whipping
5. Those Winter Sundays
6. Frederick Douglass
2. Hey Nonny No
3. The Point
4. The Whipping
5. Those Winter Sundays
6. Frederick Douglass