Early, bright, transient,
chaste as the morning dew,
she sparkled,
was exhaled, and went to heaven.
Taken from the Poem "Night Thoughts" by Edward Young (1683 -
This moving setting of this poem, composed in memory of a stillborn child, is remarkable
in its sparing use of just three solo voices to conjure up a whole world of grief mixed
with fond but brief memory.
The original setting is for SSA (2 sopranos and one alto)
The dwsChorale has sung it here in his studio a fourth down, with the composer's approval.
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