Three Epigrams

2 part with solo instrument (e. g. flute, clarinet)

Duration 3:00

Text by Sir William Watson

Notes

This setting of the meaningful Watson poems has some rhythmic challenges, but harmonically is very accessible to any level of singer.

Text

Once more a perfect morn!
With feet that trod Earth's green,
and sunkissed hair that swept heaven's blue
Affable, smiling, aweess I met God,
Delighted with His work as when it was new.

I follow beauty: of her train am I:
Beauty whose voice is earth and sea and air;
Who serveth, and her hands for all things ply;
Who reigneth, and her throne is ev'rywhere.

One music maketh its occult abode
In all things scatter'd from great Beauty's hand;
And evermore the deepest words of God
Are yet the easiest to understand.