Come to Me
SATB choir (optional divisi)
Part song
Commissioned by Munster High School Choirs in celebration of their 2026 Choir Tour to Ireland, Luke McGinnis, conductor, Munster High School Choirs. Funded through the Munster Education Foundation
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again tho’ cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.
– “Echo” by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
Minimum of 10 scores
Digital score only (PDF)
No physical copies will be mailed.
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