Three Choral Songs

Song Cycle by Norman Auerbach

?. The ghost [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

        Peace in thy hands,
        Peace in thine eyes,
        Peace on thy brow;
Flower of a moment in the eternal hour,
        Peace with me now.

        Not a wave breaks,
        Not a bird calls,
        My heart, like a sea,
Silent after a storm that hath died,
        Sleeps within me.

        All the night's dews,
        All the world's leaves,
        All winter's snow
Seem with their quiet to have stilled in life's dream
        All sorrowing now.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The ghost", appears in The Listeners and Other Poems, first published 1912

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?. The vision

Language: English

O starry face
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Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The vision", appears in The Burning-glass and Other Poems, first published 1945

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?. The snowflake [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

See, now, this filigree : 'tis snow, 
Shaped in the void of heavenly dew ; 
On winds of space like flower to blow 
In a wilderness of blue. 

Black are those pines. The utter cold 
Hath frozen to silence the birds' green woods. 
Rime hath ensteeled the wormless mould, 
A vacant quiet broods. 

Lo, this entranced thing ! — a breath 
Of Life that bids Man's heart to crave 
Still for perfection, ere fall death 
And earth remains his grave.

Text Authorship:

by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The snowflake", appears in Flora: A Book of Drawings, first published 1919

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