After Many Springs

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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. 

A Great Need

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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.

Lost

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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.