Text of Terza Prattica


Part I


(Job, 17)

My purposes are broken off

My days are past

If I wait the gave is my house

I have made my bed in darkness.

(Isiah, 2)

A grievous vision is declared unto me: the spoiler spoileth and the treacherous dealer dealeth (treacherously).

Time held me green and dying. [Dylan Thomas]

(Job, 10)

I will leave my complaint on myself.

(Isiah, 24)

The earth mourneth (darkness).

I will leave my complaint on myself.

Destroyed.................destroyed.)


Part II


(Psalm 13, 3)

Consider and hear me, lighten my eyes

quo sequar [Virgil with Latin rearranged].

......Consider and hear me....autque telus numc habet artis.........

quo sequar..0

lest I sleep the sleep of death...

que avulsa membra et lacerum funus......nate)

Refers hoc mihi de te..........Hoc... consider and hear me.

Hoc sum secuta que terra que mari)...lighten my eyes

Consider and hear me....(Figite me......figite)


Part III


[Walt Whitman]

So was it when my life began,

[amended] so when it ended.

Bound each to each.

The child is the father of the man.

(I always wanted to return to where I was born.)

Yes, I always wanted......the body where I always....

My days are past.....bound each to each.

(return).....bound each to each.

[traditional hymn]

Watchman, tell us of the night,

what the signs of promise are,

Travellor o'er yon mountain's height, see that glory, beaming star.

Watch ought of joy or hope,....to each.....to each........to each.




text assembled by Paul Reale.