The stone-breaker’s daughter - Webb, George J.

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♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 79238

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-02-22

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He seemed a stern and harsh old man; As if his soul had caught The nature of the cold gray stones On which he daily wrought; Yet on the waste of that rude heart, One flower in beauty love, One fountain in the desert gushed, A wellspring of deep love. And she, the sunlight of his life, Who called that fountain forth, Walked angellike along his path, Too beautiful for earth: The bloom upon her rounded cheek Was of the rose’s die; But like our crimson autumn leaves, Foretold the spoiler nigh. And when her fair, young form was laid Low in its narrow bed; And wild flowers, like pale mourners, came, And gathered o’er her head, Though still among the haunts of men, He trailed life’s heavy chain, Like England’s mourning king of old, “He never smiled again.”

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