[I seek and desire]

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Instrumentation: SATB chorus a cappella
Duration: 1’57”
Poet: Sappho

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text:

I seek and desire, 
Even as the wind 
That travels the plain 
And stirs in the bloom 
Of the apple-tree. 

I wander through life, 
With the searching mind 
That is never at rest, 
Till I reach the shade 
Of my lover’s door.

– Sappho

translated from the ancient Greek by Bliss Carman