SATB/TTBB, unaccompanied
Published by St. James Music Press
A setting of a spiritual poem by the Irish poet, artist and mystic George William Russell that evokes the peace and stillness of the coming of evening weaves striking imagery around the omnipresence of God.
Duration: 3’ 15”
Libretto:
Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress;
Each chimney’s vapour, like a thin grey rod,
Mounting aloft through miles of quietness,
Pillars the skies of God.
Far up they break or seem to break their line,
Mingling their nebulous crests that bow and nod
Under the light of those fierce stars that shine
Out of the calm of God.
Only in clouds and dreams I felt those souls
In the abyss, each fire hid in its clod;
From which in clouds and dreams the spirit rolls
Into the vast of God.