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Whose names you meditate-April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little
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Stalk without wrinkle, Pool in which images Should be grand and classical
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Sylvia Plath
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infiniment doux pp TENOR Your clear eye,
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the
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Shawn Kirchner
Slowly, not metronomically (q = c. 42) pp infiniment doux
SOPRANO
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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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fill it with co - lor and ducks, The
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new Whose names
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class - i - cal linger
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linger
ma - ges should be grand
linger
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