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The Broken Heart - Vocal Chamber Music for Soprano [Voice​]​, Bass Clarinet & Piano - Maurizio Schembri

by Maurizio Schembri

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Vocal Chamber Music for Soprano [Voice], Bass Clarinet & Piano composed by Maurizio Schembri. The poem is by William Barnes and it is written in Dorset dialect.

About the author: William Barnes was born on February 22, 1801 at Rushay in the parish of Bagber, Dorset, the son of a farmer and died on October 7, 1886. He was an English writer, poet, minister, and a philohist and wrote more than 800 poems and quote from more than 70 different languages. He avoided using foreign words in his poetry. Barnes often used a repetition of consonantal sounds.

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The Poem: The Broken Heart

News o' grief had overteaken
Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken;
There she zot, wi' breast a-heaven,
While vrom zide to zide, wi' grieven,
Vell her head, wi' tears a-creepen
Down her cheaks, in bitter weepen.
There wer still the ribbon-bow
She tied avore her hour ov woe,
An' there wer still the hans that tied it
Hangen white,
Or wringen tight,
In ceare that drowned all ceare bezide it.

When a man, wi' heartless slighten,
Mid become a maiden's blighten,
He mid cearelessly vorseake her,
But must answer to her Meaker;
He mid slight, wi' selfish blindness,
All her deeds o' loven-kindness,
God wull waigh 'em wi' the slighten
That mid be her love's requiten;
He do look on each deceiver,
He do know
What weight o' woe
Do break the heart ov ev'ry griever.

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released May 9, 2015

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