Choral SSA Choir and
Piano
SKU:
CF.BL1315
Composed by
Jacob Narverud. 8 pages.
Duration 3 minutes, 3
seconds. BriLee Music
#BL1315. Published by
BriLee Music (CF.BL1315).
UPC: 672405011822.
Key: F
major.
DawnQuiet
miles of golden sky,And
in my heart a sudden
flower.I want to clap my
hands and sighFor Beauty
in her secret
bower. Quiet golden
miles of dawnâ??Smiling
all the East along;And in
my heart nigh fully
grown,A little rose-bud
of a song.â??From
â??Last Songsâ? by
Francis LedwidgeDawn,
radiant dawn!When morning
comes my fears are
gone.Daylight breaks, my
soul awakes!And songs of
Love sing
on. â??Italics:
Additional text by Jacob
NarverudAbout the
PoetFrancis Ledwidge
(1887â??1917) was an
Irish poet from Slane,
County Meath. Ledwidge
started writing at an
early age and was first
published in a local
newspaper when he was
fourteen years old.
Ledwidge left the local
national school shortly
after and worked as a
farm hand, road surface
mender, and copper miner
at Beaupark Mine near
Slane. Ledwidge became
friends with a local
landowner, the writer
Lord Dunsany, who gave
him a workspace in the
library of Dunsany Castle
and introduced him to
literary figures,
including William Butler
Yeats and Katherine
Tynan. Some of
Ledwidgeâ??s manuscripts
are held in the National
Library of Ireland. The
main surviving
collection, including his
early works and personal
letters, are in the
archives of Dunsany
Castle.
William Lee
