Madrigals and Memories

The light in my room just randomly turned off by itself! Maybe its a sign from a supernatural presence :P I'm not at all afraid of that idea... I mean even if there were supernatural phenomena, it can't be as scary as real life!

I've been in bed all day today.

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^^So that was the post that I started a few days ago and ran out of energy to finish. I was really depressed for a few days, I couldn't get up or do anything at all. But I am feeling much better now, though still a bit lacking in energy/enthusiasm/motivation, and sleeping too much, I guess. Yesterday I started composing a madrigal that I've been wanting to write for ages. I set it to an abstract of the text of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ode To Memory". Tennyson is one of my favourite poets. These are the stanzas I used:

I.
THOU who stealest fire,
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present, oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory. 

IV.
Come forth, I charge thee, arise,
Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes!
Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vines
Unto mine inner eye,
Divinest Memory!

Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory. 


You know, I've always wished that I studied music composition as a major at university, along with performance. I've always loved to compose! our university chapel choir is actually performing one of my pieces, a setting of "Ave Maria", this semester. I can't wait to hear it sung aloud for the first time! I don't want to write about anything sad or stressful in this post; I am too tired. I should get to sleep soon though as it's getting late. I have Napolean snuggled at the foot of my bed - I am warming my feet up on him :P It's so COLD at the moment!!

lines hold the memoriesby =agnes-cecile

(taken from deviant art)

~Tam~