A Birthday (Charles West)

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Editor: Charles West (submitted 2016-07-18). Score information: A4, 19 pages, 211 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: A Birthday
Composer: Charles West
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti

Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: AATTBarB

Genre: Secular

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 2016

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A Birthday - Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder that all these Because my love is come to me.

Singing birds and apple trees Rainbow shells and halcyon seas, My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Silk and down and purple dyes, Peacocks with a hundred eyes; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.