Assignment: Write a poem describing what you hear the composer trying to say

through music in one of the songs were currently working on for next months
concert.
Holsts First Suite in E flat: Chaconne

Orange waves break at dawn

Sails spread wide
Light breeze as the ship departs.

Captains ragged crew

With men tall and tough,
Who run the ship each day
To each late night

A fair maiden comes from below

With hair blowing softly
As the dark sky begins to snow

Waves harshen
And the skies grey
The eye of the storm
Flushing the small ship far away

But the sun emerges slowly,

A Bright new morning
Shinning on a distant coast
Green, ripe with age.