SATB performance time approx 2m 00s

Music

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Words

From star to star, from sun and spring and leaf,
and almost audible flowers whose sound is silence,
and in the common meadows, springs the seed of life.

Now the lilies open, and the rose
released by summer from the harmless graves
that, centuries deep, are in the air that we breathe,
and in our earth, and in our daily bread.

External and innate dimensions hold
the living forms, but not the force of life;
for that interior and holy tree
that in the heart of hearts outlives the world
spreads earthly shade into eternity.

Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine's poem is reproduced with her permission.

Price

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