This touching short song is a setting of an elegiac text written by Harmony Ives in memoriam for her mother. It perfectly combines a tonal vocal line with surrounding "mists" of gently descending and rolling complex harmonies (in whole-tone scales and higher harmonics) - "mists of hill and dale" and "grey skies". The mid-section is like a great sigh, a regret for the loss of happier times - the voice and piano descend gradually slower and lower in register (with some wonderful chord voicing). The Gothic metaphor of mist equated with memory is very prevalent thoughout Ives work, and this is another fine example.

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