To Music

  • for voice and piano

  • Duration 2' 30"

Words

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

original title (when composed in 1991) "To Caroline"

Availability

sheet music (PDF with permission to print or download) available from via this website: GBP 8.00

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Text

In your strings is hid a music that no hand ever let fall,
In your soul is hid a pleasure that you have not known at all;
Pleasure subtle as your spirit, strange and tender as your frame,
Fiercer than the pain that folds you, softer than your sorrow’s name.
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By God, I will not fear,
I will learn you, I will play you, and the stars stand still to hear.