Three Sisters

"Three Sisters" is the third song of Theodore Chanler's song cycle Eight Epitaphs, which sets the text of Walter de la Mare.

Date: 1939Composer: Theodore ChanlerText: Walter De la MareSong Collection: Eight Epitaphs

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Three Sisters
by Walter de la Mare

Three sisters rest beneath
This cypress shade,
Sprightly Rebecca, Anne,
And Adelaide.
Gentle their hearts to all
On earth, save Man;
In Him, they said, all Grief,
All Woe began.
Spinsters they lived, and spinsters
Here are laid;
Sprightly Rebecca, Anne,
And Adelaide.

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Eight Epitaphs

Composer(s): Theodore Chanler

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