R29 · BRIMSWORTH OPERA · Act VI · Aria 5
Wren-Junior's Farewell Aria
Mezzo-soprano · age 18 · year 2170 · the door at dusk
Solo french horn · R27 leitmotif · R28 generation 5 as opera
Libretto · Aria V
Eighteen and the road calls me away,
I leave Brimsworth at twenty-one-seventy.
The clockmakers wait beyond the hill,
I shall return when the bells ring twice.