Ballad of trees and the Master, 2015

Ballad of Trees and the Master. For SSA or TTB choir and keyboard. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays. Publisher’s No. AP-10506. Text by Sidney Lanier.

Choral Into the woods my Master went, clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, the little grey leaves were kind to Him. The thorntree had a mind to Him, when inwoods the woods He came. Out of the woods my Master went, and He was well content. Out of the woods my Master came, content with death and shame. When death and shame would woo Him last, from under the trees they drew Him last. T’was on a tree they slew Him last when out of the woods He came. Lanier, Sidney Keyboard (piano) SSA or TTB 2015 Alliance Publications, Inc. Sinsinawa, WI 2:31 75 #1054261452 Choruses, Secular (Men's voices, 3 parts) with keyboard instrument.