Alway Something Sings
Music by Dan Forrest
Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
All Parts
Soprano 1
Soprano 2 (Sop 2s take middle notes in meas. 11, 12, 62, 68, 69)
Alto 1 (Alto 1s take middle notes in meas. 57, 70-73, 76)
Alto 2
Tenor 1
Tenor 2 (Ten 2s take middle note in meas. 67)
Bass 1 (Bass 1s take middle notes in meas. 73, 77-79)
Bass 2
Solo
Poem:
Let me go where'er I will,
I bear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.
It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings.
'Tis not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers,
But in the mud and scum of things
There alway, alway something sings