Song of the Day - 26th October

We're feeling the love today at SFAS! With weddings as our theme, today's Song of the Day is a special tribute to my parents, who just celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary 11 days ago.

We're showcasing a setting of the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. While the poem is written from a wife's perspective, the second and third verses have a lovely universality to them. In my setting, the sopranos and altos take the lead on the first verse, then the tenors and basses represent the husband's response in the second verse, and finally, everyone comes together for the third verse, singing lovingly to each other.

Anne Bradstreet was born in England in 1612 and married at just 16 before emigrating with her parents and young family to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. She became one of the most notable early English poets in North America and was the first writer from the North American colonies to be published.

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To My Dear and Loving Husband

By Anne Bradstreet


If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee.

If ever wife was happy in a man,

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.


I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East doth hold.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee give re-competence.


Thy love is such I can no way repay.

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let's so persevere

That when we live no more, we may live ever.

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