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So dawn chromatically descends to day

Set by Kate Soper (b. 1943), "So dawn chromatically descends to day", 2018 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [Sung Text]

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Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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Author(s): Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (b. 1943)