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Opening the Window

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Text by Oliver Wendell Holmes


Duration: 4 minutes

Instrumentation: SATB div.

Premiere: Kantorei, October 2023, Minneapolis, MN

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Lyrics
Thus I lift the sash, so long
Shut against the flight of song;
All too late for vain excuse,--
Lo, my captive rhymes are loose.

Rhymes that, flitting through my brain,
Beat against my window-pane,
Some with gayly colored wings,
Some, alas! with venomed stings.

Shall they bask in sunny rays?
Shall they feed on sugared praise?
Shall they stick with tangled feet
On the critic's poisoned sheet?

Are the outside winds too rough?
Is the world not wide enough?
Go, my winged verse, and try,--
Go, like Uncle Toby's fly!

​~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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