The Cloths of Heaven (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2023-10-31)  CPDL #76837:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2023-10-31).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 291 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Cloths of Heaven
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: William Butler Yeats
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: Solo B + SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting of Yeats's poem for baritone soloist and SATB choir.

Original text and translations

English text

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.