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a thing of light (2023)
Notes
For Soprano and Piano
Duration: 3 minutes
Text: The Linnet by Walter de la Mare
AESS' Composers Song Writing Competition 2023, second prize
The Linnet
Upon this leafy bush
With thorns and roses in it,
Flutters a thing of light,
A twittering Linnet.
And all the throbbing world
Of dew and sun and air
By this small parcel of life
Is made more fair;
As if each bramble-spray
And mounded gold-wreathed furze,
Harebell and little thyme,
Were only hers;
As if this beauty and grace
Did to one bird belong,
And, at a flutter of wing,
Might vanish in song.
– Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
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