A coin that time cannot take (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-10-24)  CPDL #87214:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 367 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A coin that time cannot take
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Sara Teasdale
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB + soloist
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for four-part choir and soloist, of Sara Teasdale's poem 'The Coin.' The solo is suitable for mezzo-soprano or soprano, spanning the minor tenth from D to F.

Original text and translations

English text

Into my heart’s treasury
I slipped a coin
That time cannot take
Nor a thief purloin, —
Oh better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.