Oh, passin' the love o' women

[sovay]

I dreamed that Benjamin Britten had set both the first and second series of the Barrack-Room Ballads (1892 and 1896) for voice and piano; the recordings had just become available on CD. You should have heard Peter Pears on "Follow Me 'Ome."

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[sovay]

If only you could take notes about things like composers' names as you dreamed, and they'd survive into the waking world.

Very rarely, I have brought things out of dreams—not images, but words or tunes. My poem "The Drowned Men's Waltz" is one of the few examples.