1. Music & Nature

2. Sure On
This Shining Night
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by Morten Lauridsen

3. Sure On This Shining Night
Sure on this shining night
Of star-made shadows round
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground
The late year lies down the north,
All is healed, all is health
High summer holds the earth,
Hearts all whole
Sure on this shining night
I weep for wonder
Wandr’ing far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
What does this poem mean?
Think-write
Frozen Images
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James Agee (1909-1955) - “Description of Elysium”,
from Permit Me Voyage, stanzas 6-8, 1934

4. Sure On This Shining Night
Sure on this shining night
Of star-made shadows round
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground
The late year lies down the north,
All is healed, all is health
High summer holds the earth,
Hearts all whole
Sure on this shining night
I weep for wonder
Wandr’ing far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
What does this line mean?
What does it mean in
relationship to the rest of
the poem?
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James Agee (1909-1955) - “Description of Elysium”,
from Permit Me Voyage, stanzas 6-8, 1934

5. Sure On This Shining Night
Sure on this shining night
Of star-made shadows round
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground
The late year lies down the north,
All is healed, all is health
High summer holds the earth,
Hearts all whole
Sure on this shining night
I weep for wonder
Wandr’ing far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
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How do YOU connect to this poem?!
Think-Write
Frozen Image
Pantomime
Thought Bubble
Have you ever wept for
wonder wandering far alone?
What is your relationship with
nature if you’re weeping for
wonder wandering far alone?
James Agee (1909-1955) - “Description of Elysium”,
from Permit Me Voyage, stanzas 6-8, 1934

6. “Now he seeks to become nobody for a while, to disappear into
the woods so that the person he really is might find him.”
(Plotkin, 2003, p. 244)

8. Acquainted with the Night
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost

9. Darkness
by Blackmore’s Night
Once upon the dark autumn night
I was so very far from sleep
I longed to walk beneath the stars
Into the wood so dark and deep
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Neither myth nor fairy tale
Could keep me from the path to the maze
But eyes upon me I could feel
Hidden in the shadows watching always
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Something in the darkness pulled me deeper
Something in the madness eased my mind
Was I awake or was I dreaming
Cut the strings that bind me to mankind
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Once while I was sitting in my room
One cold and silver winter's day
I could hear another worldly call
Try as I might I couldn't turn away
Something in the darkness pulled me deeper
Something in the madness eased my mind
Was I awake or was I dreaming
Cut the strings that bind me to mankind
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Somewhere in between the moss and the stone
The wind and the wood became my home
I laid myself down upon the green
When the ivy overgrew I could never leave
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Something in the darkness pulled me deeper
Something in the madness eased my mind
Was I awake or was I dreaming
Cut the strings that bind me to mankind
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Something in the darkness pulled me deeper
Something in the madness eased my mind
Was I awake or was I dreaming
Cut the strings that bind me to mankind

11. Sure On
This Shining Night
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by Morten Lauridsen

12. References
Shining Night
http://www.youtube.com/v/N51JTcj5EiQ
Plotkin, B. (2003). Soulcraft: Crossing into the mysteries of nature and psyche.
Novato, CA, New World Library.!
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