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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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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (b. 1943), copyright ©
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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.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Nothing gold can stay", appears in New Hampshire, first published 1923
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Author(s): Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (b. 1943), Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)