A version for solo soprano and piano is now available. This is a hauntingly beautiful setting of Christopher Brennan’s remarkable poem written in 1913.
Sweet silence after bells! deep in the enamour’d ear soft incantation dwells.
Filling the rapt still sphere a liquid crystal swims, precarious yet clear.
Those metal quiring hymns shaped ether so succinct: a while, or it dislimns.
the silence, wanly prinkt with forms of lingering notes, inhabits, close, distinct;
and night, the angel, floats on wings of blessing spread o’er all the gather’dcotes
where meditation, wed with love, in gold-lit cells absorbs the heaven that shed
sweet silence after bells