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

     
Voices

Where

    
     


 
Piano p
 
   



 



 



 


sostenuto

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3

             
 
sun - less riv - ers weep Their waves in - to the deep, She

   
         

 


   
             

5

           
       
sleeps a charm - ed sleep: A - wake her not.

 
               
    

 
   
 
 
    
        
    
Copyright ©2019 John Barber. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.
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    
 
   
A - wake her not.

 
       
        

  

     
  



  




10

        
        
Led by a sin - gle star, She came from ve - ry far To

     
      

   


      
 
  
 
 
          

12

       


 


  
seek where shad - ows are; Her pleas - ant

     
          
  


           
          
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14

    

  
 


 
lot. Her pleas - sant lot.



      
           
   


  
          
  
         


Warmer
17 mf

                  
Rest, rest, a per - fect rest, Shed o - ver brow and breast; Her face to - ward the

  
                                     

  
mf
       
  

19

                

west, the pur - ple land. She can - not see the grain

    
                        
   

       
   
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21

                    
Ripe - ning on hill and plain; She can - not feel the rain up - on her hand.

 
                                     
 
    
      
      
 
23

       

 
Dream Land,

        
     
          
 
pp
   
  
     
       
 

26

    

 
Dream Land.

       
    
   
  
   
 
       
     

28 mp

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

 
        
            

       
     
mp
            

 5


31

              

left the fields of corn, For twi - light cold and

             
     

           

 
  
   


33

          
         
lorn And wa - ter springs. And wa - ter


                    
          
  

  
 
       
 
  
 

36 cresc.

     

       


springs. Through sleep, as through a veil, She


                       
           
cresc.

       

      
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
38 mf

              

sees the sky look pale, And hears the night - ing -


  
           
        
           
mf

   
  
      

40 mp

      
      
     
- ale That sad - ly sings, that sad - ly


        
                  
    
mp

 
       
 


    

43 mf

        

sings. Rest, rest for ev - er - more

   
      
                     

  mf

    
    
  
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45

                       
On a mos - sy shore; O rest, O rest at the heart’s core Till time shall cease:

    
                                   
      
   
     

47

                   
Sleep that no pain shall wake; Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall o - ver -

                                
    
   
      
   

49

          
- take Her per - fect peace.

       
                 
  
      
   
   
 
51 p

    

Dream Land,
 
    
   
  
     

p    
 
            
8
53

   

Dream Land,

 
  
   
       
  
   
   
    
    

55

  
 
Dream Land,

     
      
           
pp

   
    
          
57

 
 
Dream Land.

     
  
          

ppp

   
          




59

  


   
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