Commissioned by Snape Maltings for the Friday Afternoons project

Dream Land
to the students at Eyke Primary School — thanks for helping me write this!

Words by Christina Rossetti

Music by John Barber, with
students from Eyke Primary School

Otherworldly q = 54
p smoothly
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           
Voices
 
Where sun - less riv - ers weep Their

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                    
   
waves in - to the deep, She sleeps a charm - ed sleep: A - wake her

                
     
not. A - wake her not. Led by a sin - gle star, She

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             
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        
came from ve - ry far To seek where shad - ows are; Her pleas - ant

Warmer
14 mf

        


  
      
lot. Her pleas - sant lot. Rest, rest, a per - fect rest,

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                      
Shed o - ver brow and breast; Her face to - ward the west, the pur - ple land.

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                   
She can - not see the grain Ripe - ning on hill and plain; She can - not feel the

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             

rain up - on her hand. Dream Land,

26 mp

              
  
Dream Land. She left the ro - sy morn, She

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                  
     
left the fields of corn, For twi - light cold and lorn And wa - ter

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          
       
springs. And wa - ter springs. Through

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37 cresc. mf

                     
 
sleep, as through a veil, She sees the sky look pale, And hears the night - ing -
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40 mp

    

   

 

  
 



- ale That sad - ly sings, that sad - ly sings.

44 mf

                   
Rest, rest for ev - er - more On a mos - sy shore; O rest, O rest at the

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                

heart’s core Till time shall cease: Sleep that no pain shall wake;

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                    
Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall o - ver - take Her per - fect peace.

50 p
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        
 
Dream Land, Dream Land,

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     
    
Dream Land, Dream Land.