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Loveliest of Trees
A lovely song about finding beauty all around us.
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When I Was One-and-Twenty
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The Lent Lily
SA chorus, piano
“Loveliest of Trees” is one of A. E. Housman’s most well-known poems. It appears in his 1896 collection entitled A Shropshire Lad. Composer Timothy Hoekman has set three of these poems for SA chorus and piano, the other two poems being “When I Was One-and-Twenty” and “The Lent Lily.” These musical settings attempt to capture the sometimes folk-like, sometimes deep and sophisticated qualities of Housman’s poetry. These three songs work together well as a set, but each can also be sung individually.
Text
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
-A. E. Housman
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Seven Housman Songs (High Voice)
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