1981
The Linden Branch
Composed by 
Miriam Gideon
Miriam Gideon Text by 
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish Spirit Above the Dust Song Collection
"The Linden Branch" is the fourth movement in Miriam Gideon's song cycle Spirit Above the Dust.
Text
The Linden Branch
by Archibald MacLeish
Strophe of green leaves
In the inevitable spiral,
Versical of God,
Of what green sound the body?
Silence of what lyre?
O linden bough, O leaves,
Teach us your intervals:
Our strings are strung so false
We make no music be.
Could we as you be strung
For wind to blow on, we
Might be that song.
Sheet Music
Spirit Above the Dust
Miriam Gideon
1. Prologue
2. Know the World
3. The Two Trees
4. The Linden Branch
5. Black Boy
6. My Caliban Creature
Interlude
7. The Snow Fall
2. Know the World
3. The Two Trees
4. The Linden Branch
5. Black Boy
6. My Caliban Creature
Interlude
7. The Snow Fall