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Instrumentation: SSAB chorus, acappella
Duration: 1’39”
Artist: Mykola Leontovich, inspired by Dodie

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Instrumentation: SATB chorus + piano
Duration: 1’58”
Poet: Langston Hughes

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Text:

Now,
In June,
When the night is a vast softness
Filled with blue stars,
And broken shafts of moon-glimmer
Fall upon the earth,
Am I too old to see the fairies dance?
I cannot find them any more.

Langston Hughes

From The Weary Blues (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) by Langston Hughes. This poem is in the public domain. 

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Instrumentation: SATB chorus + piano
Duration: 4:08
Poet: Daniel Ladinsky

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Text:

Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That

-Daniel Ladinsky

“A Great Need,” from the Penguin Publication The Gift copyright 1999, Daniel Ladinsky,
http://www.danielladinsky.com, used with permission.

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Instrumentation: SATB chorus + piano
Duration: 3’02”
Poet: Carl Sandburg

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Text:

Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.

-Carl Sandburg

This poem is in the public domain.

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Instrumentation: SATB chorus + alto soloist + piano
Duration: 4’29”
Poet: Zitkála-Šá

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Text:

Like tiny drops of crystal rain,
       In every life the moments fall,
To wear away with silent beat,
       The shell of selfishness o’er all.

And every act, not one too small,
       That leaps from out the heart’s pure glow,
Like ray of gold sends forth a light,
       While moments into seasons flow.

Athwart the dome, Eternity,
       To Iris grown resplendent, fly
Bright gleams from every noble deed,
       Till colors with each other vie.

’Tis glimpses of this grand rainbow,
       Where moments with good deeds unite,
That gladden many weary hearts,
       Inspiring them to seek more Light.

-Zitkála-Šá

This poem is in the public domain.