Autumn Fires (download)

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Autumn Fires (part song)

No. 2 of Three Romantic Part Songs, for SATB quartet or chorus unaccompanied
Text—Robert Lewis Stevenson
A part song in the tradition of Sullivan, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The poem celebrates the change of seasons and reminds us that there is “something bright in all.”
2008
Duration: 2′
5 pages

Text

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

–Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)