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Sea Drift (Delius)
''Sea Drift'' is among the larger-scale musical works by the composer Frederick Delius. Completed in 1903-1904 and first performed in 1906, it is a setting for baritone, chorus and orchestra of words by Walt Whitman.
== The poem adaptation ==
''Sea Drift'' takes its name from a section of Walt Whitman's poetical compilation ''Leaves of Grass'', Sea-Drift, which contains several poems about the sea or the shore.〔W. Whitman, ''Leaves of Grass'' “Deathbed edition” 1891-92 (J. M. Dent Ltd., London 1993). First published 1855.〕 The text is drawn from the poem ''Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'', though it does not use the full text. In the poem, the speaker describes how, as a boy, he watched a pair of mocking-birds nesting,〔Described thus in the opening lines, these were probably Northern Mockingbirds, which have bluish-green eggs with brown spots ('four light-green eggs spotted with brown'). Certain musical lines suggest the call of this bird. Its summer range does extend to Long Island (whose native name is Paumanok), where the events of the poem are set.〕 until one day the she-bird flew away and never returned. In a long section usually printed in italics, the he-bird, unable to leave in case his mate should return and find him gone, waits forever and calls his sorrowful song to the moon, the stars and the sea, which are heavy and drooping with his lost love.
The text employed by Delius closes with the bird's apostrophe, 'translated' by the boy, who seems to understand it, or projects it from his own awakening feelings. The poem however continues to explain how the boy's feelings suddenly burst out tumultuously, and he ran weeping down to the sea in the moonlight as the bird's call unlocked the questions in his own heart. Knowing that he will never escape the unknown want aroused in him, 'the sweet hell within', he begs for some word more of understanding. The unhurrying sea
Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
And again death, death, death, death
Hissing melodious, neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart,
But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet,
Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
Death, death, death, death, death.
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