1
A smiling Legrand toys with the thought for a semibreve longer, then breaks the magic.
2
How well placed they were, those semibreves!
3
Item, the goodly Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.
4
Minims and quavers hovered, sinking at the end of each passage to deep semibreves before reascending and moving on.
5
The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, "Peace, be still," after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas.