Head, Michael - Foxgloves (A Flat)

Foxgloves In A Flat - from "More Songs of the Countryside"

 

Vocal Range: eb-eb
The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 7)

Instrumentation: Low Voice And Piano
Binding: Saddle stitching
Language: English
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London
ISMN: M-060-03232-5
ISBN: 979-0-060-03232-5

 

Text:

The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.

All the golden clappers hang
As if but now the changes rang;
Only from the mottled throat
Never any echoes float.

Quite forgotten, in the wood,
Pale, crowded steeples rise;
All the time that they have stood
None has heard their melodies.

Deep, deep in wizardry
All the foxglove belfries stand.
Should they startle over the land,
None would know what bells they be.

Never any wind can ring them,
Nor the great black bees that swing them
Ev'ry crimson bell, down-slanted,
Is so utterly enchanted.

The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.

ISMN	9790060032325 (M060032325)