The Ghost of a Flower (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-11-20)  CPDL #87491:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-11-20).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 385 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Ghost of a Flower
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Robert Laurence Binyon
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SMzATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices, of Laurence Binyon's poem 'From the Chinese'

Original text and translations

English text

A flower, or the ghost of a flower!
Mist, or the soul of it, felt
In the secret night's mid hour,
Lost on the morning air!
Who shall recover it,--beauty born to melt
As the apparition of blossom brief and shy,
As the cloud in the sky that vanishes, who knows where?