She Sat and Sang

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SATB, Piano accompaniment
Music by Lane Johnson
Words by Christina Rossetti
Level: Intermediate
Duration: ~3:20

She Sat and Sang is a setting of Christina Rossetti's poem by the same name.

To me, the text is a somewhat somber and emotional reminiscing of happy memories and the subsequent sorrow that inevitably comes after the loss of a loved one.

Ideal for high school or community mixed choirs.

Text

She sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.

I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.

I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died in the air.

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