Music when soft voices die

by Nancy Galbraith

text by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Timothy Williams, mezzo-soprano
Karen Jeng Lin, piano

Premiered in October 2020 in The March of the Women Series

Text:
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.