VOCES8: The Sleeping Child ( Bob Chilcott)

VOCES8 sings the new commission written for the ensemble by Bob Chilcott The Sleeping Child. Thank you for all your support this past year, and wishing you all a very peaceful and happy Christmas. TEXT The Sleeping Child by Charles Bennett Sleeping child, I wonder, have you a dream to share May I see the things you see as you slumber there I dream a wind that speaks, like music as it blows As if it were the breath of everything that grows. I dream a flock of birds flying through the night Like silent stars on wings of everlasting light. I dream a flowing river, deep as a thousand years, Its fish are frozen sorrow, its water bitter tears. I dream a tree so green, branches wide and long, And ev ry leaf and ev ry voice a song. I dream of a babe who sleeps, a life that s just begun. A word that waits to be spoken. The promise of a world to come.