Joy

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Instrumentation: SAB chorus + piano
Duration: 3’00”
Poet: Clarissa Scott Delany

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Text:

Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail,
Like the roistering wind
That laughs through stalwart pines.
It floods me like the sun
On rain-drenched trees
That flash with silver and green.

I abandon myself to joy—
I laugh—I sing.
Too long have I walked a desolate way,
Too long stumbled down a maze
Bewildered.

-Clarissa Scott Delany

This poem is in the public domain.