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- CPDL #15752:
- Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2008-01-06). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 89 kB Copyright: © 2007 Philip Legge
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General Information
Title: I hear the land
Composer: Philip Legge
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Secular, Anthem
Languages: English, Latin
Instruments: tenor drum, keyboard accompaniment ad libitum
Published: 2008
Description: Bogus composition submitted to a competition under the pseudonym, “Hieronymous Botsch”. Loosely inspired by the author's dissatisfaction with the (recently defeated!) Howard government, and a song from a They Might Be Giants podcast.
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Original text and translations
English and 
Latin text
I hear the land calling:
terra, terra
I hear the land calling me
terra australis: non est terra incognita
I hear the land calling me
To walk on ochre soil under starry skies
A million days I saw the sunrise
And a million nights I danced
I hear the land calling me
Terra, grandis terra australis.