Name: Fire and Sleet by Dave Froman SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Dave Froman
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Fire and Sleet
by Dave Froman SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Fire and Sleet

Artist Dave Froman

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Dave Froman

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 12

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Dave Froman

Level 3

Product ID 1289795

Genre Classical Contemporary Chamber

Instruments Choir

Product Description

2021. SATB, piano, and violin / 4:30

The beautiful and haunting poem Fire and Sleet and Candlelight laments a wasted life. This original piece is reminiscent of the choral standards Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Wayfaring Stranger, evoking what I can hope are similar thrilling feelings of angst and terror for singer, conductor, and listener. Text by poet Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), born in Somerville, New Jersey.

Please reach out if you would like to premiere this piece. davefroman@gmail.com.

Text:
For this youve striven
Daring, to fail:
Your sky is riven
Like a tearing veil.

For this, youve wasted
Wings of your youth;
Divined, and tasted
Bitter springs of truth.

From sand unslakèd
Twisted strong cords,
And wandered naked
Among trysted swords.

Theres a word unspoken,
A knot untied.
Whatever is broken
The earth may hide.

The road was jagged
Over sharp stones:
Your bodys too ragged
To cover your bones.

The wind scatters
Tears upon dust;
Your souls in tatters
Where the spears thrust.

Your race is ended
See, it is run:
Nothing is mended
Under the sun.

Straight as an arrow
You fall to a sleep
Not too narrow
And not too deep.

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