Opus 814
Eternitie (2008)
for SATB Chorus Unaccompanied
Text by Robert Herrick
Harvard University Choir; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Duration: 3 min.
Dedication: for John Harbison on his 70th birthday
Commission: Commissioned for the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London
Publisher: Musik Fabrik
Performance materials available from the publisher.
O Yeares! And Age! Farewell:
Behold I go,
Where I do know
Infinitie to dwell.
And these mine eyes shall see
All times, how they
Are lost i’th’Sea
Of vast Eternitie.
Where never moon shall sway
The Starres; but she,
And night, shall be.
Drown’d in one endlesse Day.
Robert Herrick (1591–1674)