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The Swallows is based on an Armenian poem by the late Gourgen Mahari translated by J R Russell. The flight and fate of the swallows represents the diaspora of the Armenian people after the 1915 massacre. The limping 7/4 accompaniment emphasises the fatigue of these long-flying birds.
The recording is from the CD Songs of Solomons and was performed by Stephen Taylor (countertenor) and Jonathan Leonard (piano), who have given permission for use of their performance.
Far in the distant Nile Valley
down nameless highways unknown,
where the Dead Sea's gloomy ripples break,
straining on their way unfinished home
With a song in their hearts, the swallows died,
unable to re turn.
They never came back to adorn the Spring with heady song,
to chant with the winds the green meadow,
rebuild abandoned nests.
They died on distant mountains, plains afar,
unable to return. Far away.
Can they subsist with the love of our hearts or our gardens' blossoms gay
or our joyous vernal rains?
They who died on the way unfinished home…
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