JOSEFIINA VANNESLUOMA & MORTAL LEASE - The Mortal Lease VII

Mortal Lease is a Helsinki-based jazz project by vocalist and composer Josefiina Vannesluoma. This piece is the second last composition of an eight-part sonnet suite, composed by Vannesluoma and written in 1908 by Edith Wharton. Composed by Josefiina Vannesluoma Poem by Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) Josefiina Vannesluoma, vocals Mikael Myrskog, piano Nathan Francis, double bass Ville Luukkonen, drums Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tuomas Haimakainen Videoing by Mikko Malmivaara Edited by Elian Mikkola www.josefiinavannesluoma.com Live in Helsinki Music Centre on Dec 17, 2019. https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/tue-... ....... The Mortal Lease VII Shall I not know? I, that could always catch The sunrise in one beam along the wall, The nests of June in April’s mating call, And ruinous autumn in the wind’s first snatch At summer’s green impenetrable thatch— That always knew far off the secret fall Of a god’s feet across the city’s brawl, The touch of silent fingers on my latch? Not thou, vain Moment! Something more than thou Shall write the score of what mine eyes have wept, The touch of kisses that have missed my brow, The murmur of wings that brushed me while I slept, And some mute angel in the breast even now Measures my loss by all that I have kept.