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to a poem by Thomas Hardy. This song belongs together with track 1 & 2 on Disc One of the Poetry of Earth album.

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The moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going.

Seasons of blankness as of snow,
The silent bleed of a world decaying,
The moan of multitudes in woe,
These were the things we wished would go;
But they were staying.

Then we looked closelier at Time,
And saw his ghostly arms revolving
To sweep off woeful things with prime,
Things sinister with things sublime
Alike dissolving.

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from Poetry of Earth (double album), released March 27, 2012
Anne Mette Iversen - acoustic bass & composition, Maria Neckam - vocal, Dan Tepfer - piano, John Ellis - bass clarinet

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Anne Mette Iversen New York

Danish bassist and composer Anne Mette Iversen shares her time between NYC and Berlin. She has 11 albums out as a leader and toured extensively in Europe and the US. 2016 she was Composer in Residence for Norrbotten Big Band (S). She is co-founder of Brooklyn Jazz Underground, co-owner of BJURecords and Professor of Composition and Arrangement at the Institute of Music, Hochschule Osnabrück (D). ... more

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