Snow-flakes (Richard Norris)

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• (Posted 2014-02-17)  CPDL #31307:     

Editor: Richard Norris (submitted 2014-02-17).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 92 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Snow-flakes
Composer: Richard Norris
Lyricist: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2014
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.

Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals The grief it feels.

This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.