Thomas Hardy's attention is drawn to the hedgerow
songbirds on a late afternoon in Spring. They are full
of life, behaving "as if all Time were theirs". In the
second verse, he notes a remarkable fact: not so long
ago, these proud songsters didn't even exist as birds -
they were "only particles of grain, and earth, and air,
and rain."
My new music sets Hardy's poem as a song, including a
wistful melody twixt the verses.
SHEET MUSIC