Three Songs of Memory - Song (Philip King)

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• (Posted 2010-02-20)  CPDL #21055:   

Editor: Philip King (submitted 2010-02-20).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Three Songs of Memory - Song
Composer: Philip King
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2009
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English text

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me.
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.