He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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Instrumentation
SATB div
Additional Information
Choral setting of He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; created as part of Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy 2023.
Performed by the Carice Singers, directed by George Parris
Preview score available at alicebeckwith.co.uk/music/p/hewishesclothsheaven
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W. B. Yeats