Performance noteIdeal for Community or High School mixed choirs.
She Sat and Sang is a setting of Christina Rossetti's poem by the same name.
To me, the text is a somewhat somber and emotional reminiscing of happy memories and the subsequent sorrow that inevitably comes after the loss of a loved one.
Lyrics
She sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.
I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.
I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died in the air.
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