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Never May the Fruit Be Plucked

from Vincent Millay Cycle (2010) by Thomas Oboe Lee

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Mary Hubbell, soprano
Brent Funderburk, piano
Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music by Thomas Oboe Lee
© Departed Feathers Music, BMI

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3. Never May the Fruit Be Plucked

Never, never may the fruit be plucked from the bough
And gathered into barrels.
He that would eat of love must eat where it hangs.
Though the branches bend like reeds,
Though the ripe fruit splash in the grass or wrinkle on the tree,
He that would eat of love may bear away from him
Only what his belly can hold,
Nothing in the apron,
Nothing in the pockets.
Never, never may the fruit be gathered from the bough
And harvested in barrels.
The winter of love is the cellar of empty bins,
In an orchard soft with rot.

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from Vincent Millay Cycle (2010), released December 20, 2012

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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