Name: A Hundred Flowers by Kwannon
Duration: 7 min 24 s
Description: In memory of Norbert Čapek, featuring harp, bodhran and vocals

Acdega

A setting of the poem "Shadow-Bride" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

There was a man who dwelt alone,
 as day and night went past
he sat as still as carven stone,
 and yet no shadow cast.
The white owls perched upon his head
 beneath the winter moon;
they wiped their beaks and thought him dead
 under the stars of June.

There came a lady clad in grey
 in the twilight shining:
one moment she would stand and stay,
 her hair with flowers entwining.
He woke, as had he sprung of stone,
 and broke the spell that bound him;
he clasped her fast, both flesh and bone,
 and wrapped her shadow round him.

There never more she walks her ways
 by sun or moon or star;
she dwells below where neither days
 nor any nights there are.
But once a year when caverns yawn
 and hidden things awake,
They dance together then till dawn
 and a single shadow make.

Shadow - Bride

I transcribed this off the 1958 recording by the Afghan National Orchestra using MuseScore 3.

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