for SABar (with optional Bass) and pianoHiggins's setting explores the vibrant, natural imagery in Rossetti's text with flowing melodic lines and warm harmonies. The elegant piano accompaniment is characterised throughout by quick demisemiquaver flourishes, as though painting an aural portrait of the 'singing bird'.First published in The Oxford Book of Flexible Choral Songs.OUP's series for three-part mixed voices, or SABar, serves choirs of all shapes and sizes across a broad spectrum of styles. Defined by scoring rather than genre or season, the series features practical vocal ranges, clearly presented scores, simple and supportive piano accompaniments, and appealing and inclusive texts - all underpinning quality Oxford repertoire selected specially to meet the needs of community, school, and church choirs.