Klassisk musik - Kompositören John Mitchell

I WENT TO THE GARDEN OF LOVE


Set by John Mitchell  (1941-) op. 25, Visions from the Flame, no. 6 (1977).
Text by William Blake (1757-1827)


      I went to the Garden of Love,
      and saw what I never had seen:
      A chapel was built in the midst,
      where I used to play on the green.
     
      And the gates of this chapel were shut,
      and "Thou shalt not" writ over the door;
      So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, 
      that so many, many sweet flowers bore;
     
      And I saw it was filled with graves,
      and tombstones where flowers should be;
      and priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
      and binding with briars my joys and desires