November

For SATB Chorus unaccompanied
Performed by the Harmonium Choral Society as the runner-up in their 2016 High School Composition Competition
June 2016, Madison, NJ

Text:
November
by Walter de la Mare

There is wind where the rose was,

Cold rain where sweet grass was,

And clouds like sheep

Stream o'er the steep

Grey skies where the lark was.

Nought warm where your hand was,

Nought gold where your hair was,

But phantom, forlorn,

Beneath the thorn,

Your ghost where your face was.

Cold wind where your voice was,

Tears, tears where my heart was,

And ever with me,

Child, ever with me,

Silence where hope was.