Ballad of trees and the Master, 1989

Ballad of Trees and the Master. For SATB choir (a cappella). [Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays]. Publisher’s No. AP-1798. Text by Sidney Lanier. Choral, a cappella 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 SATB, a cappella 2009 Alliance Publications, Inc. Sinsinawa, WI 1:58 60 Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 -- Musical settings.