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Monday, October 04, 2004

a great poem and a great song

My Vanity Fair soundtrack came in the mail today and I can't get enough of the first track "She Walks in Beauty." It's the Lord Byron poem set to music by Norwegian soprano Sissel that I raved about earlier. The only regret is that the whole poem doesn't make it into the song, just the first six lines (which now I won't forget):
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

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