Paroles - Musique Classique, Compositeur John Mitchell

TO THE THAWING WIND

Set by John Mitchell  (1941-) op. 48, no. 1 (1982, arr. 1993) 
Text by Robert Frost (1874-1963), from West-Running Brook, 1928.

thawing.mp3 


Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snow-bank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate'er you do to-night,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit's crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o'er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out the door.