Winter Stars (Kathryn Rose)

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  • (Posted 2017-08-31)  CPDL #46149:         
Editor: Kathryn Rose (submitted 2017-08-31).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information

Title: Winter Stars
Composer: Kathryn Rose
Lyricist: Sara Teasdale

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2017
Description: 

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Original text and translations

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I went out at night alone;
 The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings—
 I bore my sorrow heavily.

But when I lifted up my head
 From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
 Burn steadily as long ago.

From windows in my father’s house,
 Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
 Above another city’s lights.

Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
 The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
 The faithful beauty of the stars.