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to Pamela Russell on her 90th birthday<br />

Song’s Eternity<br />

John Clare (1793–1864)<br />

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be? Come and see. Prai - ses sung or prai - ses said Can it be?<br />

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Song’s Eternity was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and composed <strong>for</strong> The Abbey Chapel Choir, Woodbridge.<br />

© Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press 2010 Printed in Great Britain<br />

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MUSIC DEPARTMENT, GREAT CLARENDON STREET, OXFORD OX2 6DP<br />

The Moral Rights of the Composer have been asserted. Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL.

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