The Everlasting Voices (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-02-12)  CPDL #83815:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-02-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 385 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Everlasting Voices
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: William Butler Yeats
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices (SSATB) of Yeat's poem

Original text and translations

English text

O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
And bid them wander obeying your will,
Flame under flame, till Time be no more;
Have you not heard that our hearts are old,
That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,
In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.