We rose from rapture
DURATION
3’30”
INSTRUMENTATION
SATB (div.) a cappella
AUDIO
Murray State University Choir; Bradley Almquist, conductor
POET
Edna St. Vincent Millay
YEAR COMPOSED
2002
COMMISSIONER
Volti
THIS IS A MOVEMENT FROM:
Sonnets of Vanity, Loss, and Rapture
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TEXT
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning their remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.
O sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love,
When morning strikes her spear upon the land,
And we must rise and arm us and reprove
The insolent daylight with a steady hand,
Be not discountenanced if the knowing know
We rose from rapture but an hour ago.