A gray day and quiet (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-03-18)  CPDL #84241:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-03-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 348 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A gray day and quiet
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: John Frederick Freeman
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices (SSATB) of John Freeman's poem 'Last Hours.'

Original text and translations

English text

A gray day and quiet,
      With slow clouds of gray,
And in dull air a cloud that falls, falls
              All day.

      The naked and stiff branches
      Of oak, elm, thorn,
In the cold light are like men aged and
              Forlorn.

      Only a gray sky,
      Grass, trees, grass again,
And all the air a cloud that drips, drips,
              All day.

      Lovely the lonely
      Bare trees and green grass--
Lovelier now the last hours of slow winter
              Slowly pass.