Three Wisconsin Sonnets (2015)

• SATB choir, a cappella. [English] 6½′

―by Dean Crocker

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Setting of three sonnets by Charles H. Winke, published in 1917.

Wisconsin
Pine and heroic hardwoods breathe low speech
Among thy northern hills, in whose deep hearts
The boon immeasurable of a hundred arts
Waits for man’s need…

Milwaukee Bay
Here from this height, green-mantled, where I stand,
At the half-circle’s center, musing how
A something wrought in Nature may endow
A stretch of water and a strip of land…

Socialism
When finally it shall be understood,
And take the color of the stateman’s thought;
When Christly justice shall be truly sought
Between man and his neighbor, as it should…

—Charles H. Winke (1883‒?)

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