The text is panoply of excerpts selected by Ptaszyńska from poets as different as Samuel Coleridge, Henri Auguste Barbier, Jan Nepomucen Kamiński, Rajnold Suchodolski, József Bajza, Ferenc Kerenyi, Jan Kasprowicz, Count Carl Snoilsky, Artur Oppman, Juliusz Ptaszyński (the composer’s father), Stanisław Wyspiański, and Maria Konopnicka. The Polish composer’s
