PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Oxen
SATB unaccompanied
Music: Iain James Veitch
Text: Thomas Hardy
Theme: Christmas
Duration: 3' 40"
(Digital download edition also available)
The Oxen, written in 1915, was published Christmas Eve that same year. In this poem Hardy recollects that, as a child, it wouldn't have occurred to him, or anyone else, to doubt the local legend of the oxen kneeling in reverence on the onset of Christmas day. Perhaps partly because of the Great War, during which many old certainties were undermined, Hardy realises that such a 'fair fancy' would not really be taken seriously by many 'In these years'
However, he acknowledges with a certain degree of nostalgia that his rational adult understanding of the world remains vulnerable to the thought of magically ‘Hoping it might be so’.
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PRODUCT INFORMATION
- number of pages: 12 total (7 of music)
- Size: 19 x 27 cm
- duration: 3' 40"
- Language: English
- ISMN Number: 9790570531295
- Brand: Fieldgate Music
- Product Code: FM 149
- Weight: 0.045kg