The Rewaking (2005)
For male chorus
Text by William Carlos Williams
Commissioned by the Cornell University Glee Club, Scott Tucker, Director, in honor of Conductor Emeritus Thomas A. Sokol
Premiered by the Cornell Glee Club, Scott Tucker conducting, Ithaca, NY, September 2005
Duration: 5 minutes
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Text
The Rewaking
William Carlos Williams
Sooner or later
we must come to the end
of striving
to re-establish
the image the image of
the rose
but not yet
you say extending the
time indefinitely
by
your love until a whole
spring
rekindle
the violet to the very
lady's-slipper
and so by
your love the very sun
itself is revived
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