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Earth's Last Picture

from View from Violet Hill by Norah Long

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It seems I heard my grandmother recite this poem multiple times a day, every time I saw her. I can still recall her voice so clearly. Then one day, I discovered I knew it, too. I’d learned it without even realizing it. It is my first recorded original song.

lyrics

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!

And those that were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets' hair;
They shall find real saints to draw from -- Magdalene, Peter, and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!

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from View from Violet Hill, released January 1, 2010
words L’Envoi to The Seven Seas (1896), Rudyard Kipling – music Norah Long ©2009 Violet Hill Music [ASCAP]. All rights reserved. – piano Michael Pearce Donley – upright bass Ian Allison – violin/viola Carolyn Boulay – accordion, suspended cymbal, synthesizer Matt Patrick

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