Marietta (Chandler York)

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• CPDL #14594: Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2007-07-29).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 51 kbytes   Copyright: Chandler York 2001

Edition notes: May be reproduced for community singing, or free public performance.

General Information

Title: Marietta
Composer: Chandler York

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

Language: English
Instruments:
Published: 2001

Description: Original composed for inclusion in a modern shape-note hymnal.

External websites:

Original text and translations

English text

In winter's heart all silent lies,

Dark earth no songbird sings;

And yet in brighter climes fulfills

The promise of our Spring.

For earth no sorrow knows at death,

or winter's cruelest cold,

She knows at death's deepest part,

Life's tenderest's flowers unfold.

We here on earth are season bound:

We're born to bloom and die.

But each year as the seasons turn,

Life sings a new-born's cry.

For as the sun takes not its course

In orbit 'round the earth,

The law of love is not contained

in Man or death or birth.