A blackbird singing - Bastable, Jennifer

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"A setting for five voices, SSATB, of Francis Ledwidge's poem 'To One Dead.'"

◈ Genre / Form → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SSATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 5

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 88982

Editor Jennifer Bastable

Posted 2026-04-16

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

A blackbird singing On a moss-upholstered stone, Bluebells swinging, Shadows wildly blown, A song in the wood, A ship on the sea. The song was for you and the ship was for me. A blackbird singing I hear in my troubled mind, Bluebells swinging, I see in a distant wind. But sorrow and silence, Are the wood's threnody, The silence for you and the sorrow for me.