On the Hillside - Patrick Vu - University of Denver - SWACDA 2024 - Catherine Sailer

The University of Denver Lamont Chorale sings On the Hillside composed by Patrick Vu.
Conductor: Catherine Sailer
Pianist: Zerek Dodson
Winter 2024.
Poem: On the Hill-Side: A Memory
by Radclyffe Hall
You lay so still in the sunshine,
So still in that hot sweet hour --
That the timid things of the forest land
Came close; a butterfly lit on your hand,
Mistaking it for a flower.
You scarcely breathed in your slumber,
So dreamless it was, so deep --
While the warm air stirred in my veins like wine,
The air that had blown through a jasmine vine,
But you slept -- and I let you sleep.