I love everything about this.  (even the sound of you hitting the spacebar at the end)  I would love to have a whole album of songs in the same style.

from W.B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (1899):

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244302

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Wandering Aengus (W.B. Yeats)

Confound Winter is a short song for three voices, setting poetry by Tess Kincaid.  It was composed for the Juice Vocal Trio and their 'Snow Queens' programme; Juice gave the first performance in London in December 2016.

Wandering Aengus (W.B. Yeats)

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