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My Wife

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• Tenor/piano
• Secular text (Robert Louis Stevenson – loving tribute to a spouse)
• 3:00
• Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
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I wrote this for a farewell recital for Don Wharton, who was retiring as President of Plymouth State University.  I sang the premiere as well.  It’s dedicated to my wife, Marcia.

My Wife

TRUSTY, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.

Honour, anger, valour, fire;
A love that life could never tire,
Death quench or evil stir,
The mighty master
Gave to her.

Teacher, tender, comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life,
Heart-whole and soul-free
The august father
Gave to me.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

This text is in the public domain.

 

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