Lingering Last Drops

"Lingering Last Drops" is one of Ernst Bacon's Walt Whitman settings.

Composer: Ernst BaconText: Walt Whitman

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by Walt Whitman

AND whence and why come you?
We know not whence, (was the answer,)
We only know that we drift here with the rest,
That we linger’d and lagg’d—but were wafted at last, and are
now here,
To make the passing shower’s concluding drops.

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Tributaries

Composer(s): Ernst Bacon

Song(s): World, take notice
Lingering last drops
The Spanish armada
The banks of the Yellow Sea
If bees are few
Sunset
Ariel
With the first arbutus
Sleep
Miranda
Summer's lapse
The bat
There's this to say
No more
Farewell to a name
This and my heart
Eden
Alabaster wool
Dusk
Vanity of vanities
Ancient carol
The last invocation
The divine ship
The red rose
Song of snow-white heads
Simple days
Water
The postponeless creature
Eternity
The unquiet grave
The unseen soul

Voice Type: Medium-High

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