In the after silences (Jennifer Bastable)
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- (Posted 2025-12-24) CPDL #87870:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-12-24). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 391 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: In the after silences
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Francis Ledwidge
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A challenging setting for five voices that, with its theme of a soul’s journey through strange lands after death, is suitable for performance in concerts for Remembrance Sunday/Armistice Day.
Francis Ledwidge was killed in the First World War, shortly before his thirtieth birthday.
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Original text and translations
English text
And in the after silences
Of flower-lit distances I'll be,
And who would find me travels far
In lands unsung of minstrelsy.
Strong winds shall cross my secret way,
And planet mountains hide my goal,
I shall go on from pass to pass,
By monstrous rocks, a lonely soul.