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Flood, the

In the Old Testament, the Koran, and The Epic of Gilgamesh (an ancient Sumerian legend), a deluge lasting 40 days and nights, a disaster alleged to have obliterated all humanity except a chosen few (in the Old Testament, the survivors were the family of Noah and the pairs of animals sheltered on his ark).

The story may represent legends of a major local flood; for example, excavations at Ur in Iraq revealed 2.5 m/8 ft of water-laid clay dating from before 4000 BC, over an area of about 645 km/400 mi by 160 km/100 mi.

Flood, The

Musical play by Igor Stravinsky (text by Robert Craft from Genesis and the York and Chester miracle plays), composed 1961-62 and first performed on Colombia Broadcasting System (CBS) TV on 14 June 1962. Its first stage performance was given in Hamburg, Germany, on 30 April 1963, conducted by Robert Craft.



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Hast thous not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
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But as the rain came down in a flood, the little fellow was hopelessly a prisoner, and now stood with sullen aspect at a window, wondering whether the sun itself were not extinguished by so much moisture in the sky.
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Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets thatnumb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith--the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
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