The beautiful changes - de Lange, Huub

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"Composition on a poem by Richard Wilbur. Song #3 of Four Wilbur Songs (Huub de Lange)."

◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 15553

Editor Huub de Lange

Posted 2007-11-28

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

'''The Beautiful changes''' One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne's Lace lying like lilies On water; it glides So from the walker, it turns Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes. The beautiful changes as a forest is changed By a chameleon's tuning his skin to it; As a mantis, arranged On a green leaf, grows Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves Any greenness is greener than anyone knows. Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and Thing's selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.