THE GIANT OAK
mvt 2 from “Fire Flowers”

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Cypress Choral Music · The Giant Oak – from “Fire Flowers” – by Don Macdonald

featuring Les Choristes (SSAA); we hope to add a quality SATB audio soon

LYRICS

And then the sound of marching armies ‘woke
Amid the branches of the soldier oak,
And tempests ceased their warring cry, and dumb
The lashing storms that muttered, overcome,
Choked by the heralding of battle smoke,
When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum.

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
Canadian poet of the Mohawk Nation