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The Holy Tree (2025)
- Peters Edition Limited (World)
Commissioned by the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, to celebrate its 475th anniversary.
First performance on 26 July 2025 at the Dutch Church, London by the Choir, with David Titterington, organ.
- SATB; org
- SATB
- 5 min
- W.B. Yeats
- 17th May 2026, St Paul's Church Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom
Programme Note
Text: from ‘The Two Trees’ by W.B. Yeats
SATB and organ
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light;
The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.