Choir, 'Cello and Piano accompaniment

Charlie Calver

The Self Unseeing

(A Poem by Thomas Hardy)

The Self - Unseeing

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Charlie Calver (1992 - )

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Moderato

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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