Child (Plath Songs)

Child Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.

I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo of the new

Y

Whose names you meditate-April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little

L

Stalk without wrinkle, Pool in which images Should be grand and classical

N

Not this troublous Wringing of hands, this dark Ceiling without a star.

Sylvia Plath

            Your

        is

one

beau - ti - ful thing.

S clear eye

is the

P

E

      

the

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pp

        



one ab - so - lute - ly

    

R

infiniment doux     pp     TENOR     Your clear eye,

Bass Drum

the

pp infiniment doux 3                          Your

Piano

  3  

A

clear eye

U

ALTO

Shawn Kirchner

Slowly, not metronomically (q = c. 42) pp infiniment doux

SOPRANO

L

O

28 January 1963

  3  

one











beau - ti - ful thing.

beau - ti - ful thing.



















      Your



clear eye...

        Your

clear eye...

     

Your clear

eye...

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pp

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I want to

zoo

    





zoo of the new Whose

pp

p

The

zoo...

        

Whose names

you med - i - tate--

                      p



names you med - i - tate--

  

   





Y

 



L

    

fill it with co - lor and ducks, The



N

I want to



of the new....

p                                    

new Whose names

you med - i - tate--

O

The zoo of the

  

S I div.

 S II



All Altos

     

Your

pp

        

pppp poco a poco cresc.

       -

di - an pipe,

niente

A - pril snow - drop,







p

niente



niente



Your clear







niente

p



   

eye,



 

    Your clear

   



    

niente

eye

Your clear

P

      

clear

p   

S I-b In p

eye,

p

R

E

    

clear

U



S I-a p

      

p

Your

     

3

A

    

    

L

     11

S

   

fill it with co - lor and ducks, The

niente

Your clear









 



S I-a p

p

 In

-

3

di - an

    





n

eye,

      eye

     



 

n





Lit - tle stalk with - out wrin - kle,

            

Pool

in which



E

eye,

eye,



 



Lit - tle stalk with - out wrin - kle,

pp

 

pp

i - ma - ges...

i - ma - ges

    

p

P

    



p



should

be grand

     dim.

p

i

  -

 i

  



Pool in which

i









 

-

-

mf

  

and class - i - cal



ma - ges should be grand and mf

 

 

   

 

ma - ges should be grand and

  

linger

  

class - i - cal linger

     

class - i - cal



pp



linger

        

ma - ges should be grand

 

linger

and class - i - cal

mf espress.

Pool in which

U

R

          

  

clear

p

                  Lit - tle stalk with - out wrin - kle, Pool in which pp

 

O in which

Pool

Lit - tle stalk with - out wrin - kle,

pp

   

cresc. mf                    

p

S

A only pp

p

L

    all SI           SII 17



S II

A tempo

A

Taking time, very tender



 eye,

Your clear



 

ppp



clear

Your

n

eye,

      

n

n





   

p

S I-a Your

A - pril snow - drop,

     



 

pipe,

Y

        

L

n

14

3pp

N

    

S I-b

 

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