Name: Spring and Fall
Duration: P00H01M55S
Description: Poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins, set to music by Josephine Foster

Spring and Fall

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Poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins, set to music by Josephine Foster

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Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

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released March 1, 2024
poem: Gerald Manley Hopkins
music: Josephine Foster © 2024 all rights reserved.

performed and recorded by Josephine Foster

a poem-setting demo shared exclusively with subscribers to Josephine's Glorified Amateur Label.

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Glorified Amateur Recordings is the small record label of Josephine Foster started in February 2021, and is focussed on sharing her home recorded and live archives.

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