A Robin Sang (Jennifer Bastable)

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(Posted 2025-12-04) CPDL #87678:

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-12-04). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 421 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Robin Sang
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Francis Ledwidge
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SMzATB + Solo
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices and soloist (soprano or mezzo-soprano) of Francis Ledwdge's poem Home. This was one of his last poems, written in July 1917: the very month he was killed in action at Ypres.

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Original text and translations

English text

A burst of sudden wings at dawn,
Faint voices in a dreamy noon,
Evenings of mist and murmurings,
And nights with rainbows of the moon.

And through these things a wood-way dim,
And waters dim, and slow sheep seen
On uphill paths that wind away
Through summer sounds and harvest green.

This is a song a robin sang
This morning on a broken tree,
It was about the little fields
That call across the world to me.