OVERVIEW
Parts: SA & Piano
Language: English
Text by: Sara Teasdale
Music by: Mitchell Fund
Duration: 2:40
Description
The Tree is for two-part women’s chorus or soloists performed with piano. It’s arranged in a lively 7/8, with very singable sections with an exciting and fun piano accompaniment.
Sara Teasdale may have intended this poem to romanticize death, but I interpret it as finding calm wherever you are: learning to take each day as it comes without letting the stress and anxiety of the world get to you, and finding freedom and joy in it.
SHEET MUSIC
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TEXT
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
As a tree in December;
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Resting, as a tree rests
After its leaves are gone,
Waiting no more for a rain at night
Nor for the red at dawn;
But still, oh so still
While the winds come and go,
With no more fear of the hard frost
Or the bright burden of snow;
And heedless, heedless
If anyone pass and see
On the white page of the sky
Its thin black tracery.