What Weeping Face

"What Weeping Face" is one of Marc Blitzstein's many Whitman Songs.

Date: 1925Composer: Marc BlitzsteinText: Walt Whitman

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What weeping face
by Walt Whitman

What weeping face is that looking from the window?
Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?
Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?
Is it to wet the soil of graves?

Sheet Music

The Marc Blitzstein Songbook, Vol. 3

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