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Alone

by Mark Smythe

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"Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe is a narrative poem that reflects on uniqueness and isolation from a dark perspective. The flowing electric guitar is loosely inspired by Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe - Lever Du Jour"..what if Maurice had owned a Fender?

Premiered by LA Choral Lab. April 2023 - myself on Electric Guitar.

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From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow - I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone -
And all I lov’d - I lov’d alone -
Then - in my childhood - in the dawn
Of a most stormy life - was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still -
From the torrent, or the fountain -
From the red cliff of the mountain -
From the sun that ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold -
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by -
From the thunder, and the storm -
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view -

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released December 3, 2023
Performed by LA Choral Lab

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Mark Smythe Los Angeles, California

New Zealand-born composer of Choral, Film and Concert Music, based in LA.

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