October (Original Composition)

Hello everyone! Last year, I set a Robert Frost poem called October to music. Though I didn't realize it at the time, I had no idea what I was doing. So, this summer I revised the harmonic structure as well as well as the accompaniment. If you wish to compare my progress over the course of a year, here is the first article in which I posted this piece. I did not like the way it sounds when the computer plays it, so I made the recording myself. One notable change is that I added the rest of the poem in this time, because I thought it was cheap of me to cut off Frost mid poem. Here is the poem:

October
O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
To-morrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
To-morrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow,
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know;
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away;
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.

Please let me know what you think of my revisions:

Thanks for reading/listening to this! I plan to start up the Wealth of Nations series again soon, so please keep an eye out for that! See you next time!

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