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The Eagle and the Mole - Three Poems by Elinor Wylie (2014) two sopranos, guitar + bassoon

from "As a Fowl" - live premieres from Sep 5, 2014 at the Center for New Music by Kyle Hovatter

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(no. 1) The Eagle and the Mole - Three Poems by Elinor Wylie for two sopranos, guitar + bassoon

written in 2014
performed by Jarring Sounds, Amy Foote + Alexis Luque

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The Eagle and the Mole by Elinor Wylie

Avoid the reeking herd,
Shun the polluted flock,
Live like that stoic bird,
The eagle of the rock.
The huddled warmth of crowds
Begets and fosters hate;
He keeps above the clouds
His cliff inviolate.

When flocks are folded warm,
And herds to shelter run,
He sails above the storm,
He stares into the sun.
If in the eagle's track
Your sinews cannot leap,
Avoid the lathered pack,
Turn from the steaming sheep.

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole:
Go burrow underground.
And there hold intercourse With roots of trees and stones, With rivers at their source, And disembodied bones.

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from "As a Fowl" - live premieres from Sep 5, 2014 at the Center for New Music, released September 30, 2014

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