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The Little Boy
Lost & Found

for SATB chorus a cappella (2010)

Duration: 3.5 minutes

Text: English

From Songs of Innocence (1789) by William Blake.

Premiere:

Zefiro Vocal Ensemble

St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, MA

October 5th, 2013

Text:

The Little Boy Lost

“Father! father! where are you going?

O do not walk so fast.

Speak father, speak to your little boy,

Or else I shall be lost.”

The night was dark, no father was there;

The child was wet with dew;

The mire was deep, & the child did weep,

And away the vapour flew.

 

The Little Boy Found

The little boy lost in the lonely fen,

Led by the wand’ring light,

Began to cry; but God ever nigh,

Apprear’d like his father in white.


He kissed the child & by the hand led

And to his mother brought,

Who in sorrow pale, thro’ the lonely dale,

Her little boy weeping sought.

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