As a dove when up she springs - de Lange, Huub

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"#4 from ''4 Tennyson Elegies (Huub de Lange)'', recent musical settings of "Elegies in Memoriam A.H.H." (Elegies 67, 50, 12 and 14)"

◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Besetzung → SATB ¶ Sprache → Englisch

Stimmen 4

Instrumente A cappella

CPDL Nr. 23425

Bearbeiter Huub de Lange

Veröffentlicht 2011-04-23

Lizenz Personal

Schlagwörter

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Lo, as a dove when up she springs To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe, Some dolorous message knit below The wild pulsation of her wings; Like her I go; I cannot stay; I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away O’er ocean-mirrors rounded large, And reach the glow of southern skies, And see the sails at distance rise, And linger weeping on the marge, And saying; ‘Comes he thus, my friend? Is this the end of all my care?’ And circle moaning in the air: ‘Is this the end? Is this the end?’ And forward dart again, and play About the prow, and back return To where the body sits, and learn That I have been an hour away.