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A song for voice & piano, with words and music by Peter Tranchell, probably composed late 1940s. First line: I'm going as far as I can on the pier.

Peter Tranchell’s settings of two poems by the Greek poet, Constantine P. Cavafy (though Peter spells his name with a K) were composed in the late Summer of 1956.

A poignant song by Peter Tranchell, written before 1960. No musical score survives, but the song features on a recording of songs made by Tranchell himself c.1960

"Heaven!", for voice and piano, was written in 1954 for performance in "Just as it Comes" at Trinity College, Cambridge. The lyrics are by Simon Phipps (Chaplain at Trinity College 1953-57 and Bishop of Lincoln between 1974 and 1987).