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Elias, Brian Meet me in the Green Glen

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Susan Bickley recorded the first song for NMC and gave the first performance in 2009. She also gave the first performance of the complete cycle on 3rd October 2013 at the Younger Hall, St Andrews.

Duration: c. 12 minutes Score on sale: Order No. CH76373

COMPOSER’S NOTE The ﬁrst of these songs for solo voice to poems by John Clare was written for the NMC Songbook, a CD collection of songs by a variety of British composers, which was released in April 2009. I wrote the remaining songs in March and April 2009, as I had always intended to make a group of songs to these poems. The songs may be performed individually or as a set and by any voice. They may also be transposed as desired by the singer. When more than one song is performed the transposition should be by the same degree throughout. B.E.

MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN poems by John Clare (1793–1864) All these poems were written between 1837 and 1864, Clare’s Epping Forest and Northampton period. In 1836 he started to suffer memory lapses and delusions, and was treated by Dr Matthew Allen. He improved physically but not mentally, and in December 1841 Clare was removed to Northampton Asylum where he spent his remaining years. 1. Meet me in the Green Glen

2. Song

Love meet me in the green glen Beside the tall Elm tree Where the Sweet briar smells so sweet agen There come wi me Meet me in the green glen

I would not be a wither’d leaf Twirled in an autumn sky Mine should not be a life so brief To fade and fall and die

Meet me at the sunset Down in the green glen Where we’ve often met By hawthorn tree and foxes den Meet me in the green glen Meet me by the sheep pen Where briers smell at een Meet me i the green glen Where white thorn shades are green Meet me in the green glen Meet me in the green glen By sweet briar bushes there Meet me by your own sen Where the wild thyme blossoms fair Meet me in the green glen Meet me by the sweet briar By the mole hill swelling there When the west glows like a ﬁre God’s crimson bed is there Meet me in the green glen

Nor would I be a wither’d ﬂower Whose stalk was broke before The bud showed bloom in springs young hour Heart sicken’d at the core But I would be a happy thought With thy sweet sleep to lie To live unknown, unseen, unsought And keep my lonely joy Yes I would be a ray of light In the apple of thy eye And watch o’er thee the live long night In beauty and in joy

3. Now is Past

5. Hesperus

Now is past – the happy now When we together roved Beneath the wildwood’s oak-tree bough And nature said we loved. Winter’s blast The now since then has crept between And left us both apart. Winter’s that withered all the green Have froze the beating heart. Now is past.

Hesperus the day is gone Soft falls the silent dew A tear is now on many a ﬂower And heaven lives in you

Now is past since last we met Beneath the hazel bough; Before the evening sun was set Her shadow stretched below. Autumn’s blast Has stained and blighted every bough; Wild strawberries like her lips Have left the mosses green below Her bloom’s upon the hips. Now is past. Now is past, is changed agen, The woods and ﬁelds are painted new. Wild strawberries which both gathered then, None know now where they grew. The sky’s o’ercast, Wood strawberries faded from wood-sides, Green leaves have all turned yellow; No Adelaide walks the wood-rides, True love has no bed-fellow. Now is past.

4. Love’s Pains This love, I canna’ bear it, It cheats me night and day; This love I canna’ wear it, It takes my peace away. This love wa’ once a ﬂower; But now it is a thorn, – The joy o’ evening hour, Turn’d to pain e’re morn. This love, it wa’ a bud, And a secret known to me; Like a ﬂower within a wood; Like a nest within a tree. This love, wrong understood, Oft’ turned my joy to pain; I tried to throw away the bud, But the blossom would remain.

Hesperus the evening mild Falls round us soft and sweet ‘Tis like the breathings of a child When day and evening meet Hesperus the closing ﬂower Sleeps on the dewy ground While dews fall in a silent shower And heaven breathes around Hesperus thy twinkling ray Beams in the blue of heaven And tolls the traveller on his way That earth shall be forgiven

MEET ME IN THE GREEN GLEN John Clare

Brian Elias (2009)

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