The fallow deer at the lonely house (David Solomons)

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Editor: David Solomons (submitted 2008-04-26).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 31 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The fallow deer at the lonely house
Composer: David Solomons

Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: AT
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: The text is a poem by Thomas Hardy.

External websites: http://www.dwsolo.com/fallow.htm

Original text and translations

English text

[Poem by Thomas Hardy]

One without looks in tonight
Through the curtain chink
From the sheet of glistening white
As we sit and think by the fender brink
We do not discern those eyes
Watching in the snow
Lit by lamps of rosy dyes
Wondering, aglow,
Four-footed, tiptoe