set to music by Frances Cockburn
for soprano, alto, tenor and bass chorus

SATB performance time approx 0m 45s

Music

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Words

Thraw oot your shadaws
Owre the heich hillsides,
A' ye lang trees
Whair the white mune rides.

My spirit ud darken
The sun in the East
For aye gin my luve
Laid bare her white breist.

A shadaw that derns
In my hert till a sicht
O' Love sends it plingin'
A' else into nicht!

Hugh MacDiarmid

Thanks to Carcanet Press Limited for permission to use this poem.

Throw out your shadows over the high hillsides
all ye tall trees where the white moon rides.

My spirit would darken the sun in the East
for ever if my love laid bare her white breast.

A shadow that hides in my heart until a sight
of love sends it plunging everything else into night.

Canasg editors

Price

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