Life
DURATION
1’05”
INSTRUMENTATION
SATB (div.) a cappella
AUDIO
Volti; Robert Geary, conductor
POET
Paul Laurence Dunbar
YEAR COMPOSED
2011
COMMISSIONER
Volti
THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
Songs of Lowly Life
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TEXT
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!
A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With the smile to warm and the tears to re-fresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
And that is life!