Hope, Faith, and Love

Scoring: SATB (a cappella)
Written: London, UK - March 2013
Duration: 2'00
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: £1.50

Jim first came across this poem when he was a lay clerk at Southwark Cathedral and this simple, four-part setting was written for the choir.
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Our church palms are budding willow twigs - Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

While Christ lay dead, the widowed world
Wore willow green for hope undone:
Till, when bright Easter dews impearled
The chilly burial earth,
All north and south, all east and west,
Flushed rosy in the arising sun;
Hope laughed, and Faith resumed her rest,
And Love remembered mirth.