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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