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Binsey Poplars

from Hope of a Tree by Schwa

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Binsey Poplars is a setting by Richard of the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hopkins obsessed about speech rhythms and used a system of diacritic marks to dictate how various poems should be read.

lyrics

My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh and following folded rank
Not spared, not one
That dandled a sandalled
Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank. O if we but knew what we do
When we delve or hew—
Hack and rack the growing green!
Since country is so tender
To touch, her being só slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,
Where we, even where we mean
To mend her we end her,
When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
Strokes of havoc únselve
The sweet especial scene,
Rural scene, a rural scene,
Sweet especial rural scene.

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from Hope of a Tree, released March 1, 2023
Vocal: Richard Ormrod. Music: Richard Ormrod.

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Schwa Leeds, UK

Welcome in Schwa: Peter Spafford writes poetry and plays the piano; Richard Ormrod plays other instruments and arranges tunes. More recently, Jacqui Wicks sings and plays the ukulele.

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