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Rubies (SSAA choir)
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Rubies
Published by Renforth Music (2018).
Available for purchase here:
http://www.renforthmusic.com/works/rmtch834.php
(2011, revised 2017)
SSAA choir
Text: "Rubies" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Premiered by Choeur Adleisia in Montréal, QC, 2017.
Rubies
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They brought me rubies from the mine,
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of frozen wine
From Eden's vats that run.
I looked again,—I thought them hearts
Of friends to friends unknown;
Tides that should warm each neighboring life
Are locked in sparkling stone.
But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break enchanted ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,—
When shall that sun arise?
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of frozen wine
From Eden's vats that run.
I looked again,—I thought them hearts
Of friends to friends unknown;
Tides that should warm each neighboring life
Are locked in sparkling stone.
But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break enchanted ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,—
When shall that sun arise?
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