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Score in C

Simeon's Absolution
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Act IV Scene 2 Slow and Foreboding q = 65

Sabrina Pena Young

Simeon

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Piano

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Pno.

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(Singing as if from a different peaceful place, faraway from reality.)

Clock

Once

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when I lived as a dif - fer - rent

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bbbbb
man,

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had

a most per - fect

daugh - ter.

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Pre - cious

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a gift

from God,

Copyright 2012 Sabrina Pena Young

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Absolution

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just like her moth - er.

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But the

fire b

struck her

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down.

Per - fect no

more.

(Trying to build up strength)

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Scars mol - ten a - cross her


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not there

be-fore.

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(Recovering and quiet again)

Reflective and distant


ac - cept
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could not

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yond

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pair!

Once

Once

Absolution

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(Fading in strength)

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I thought

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But

she did worse than

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But I am to blame.

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I am.

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am

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