Opus 1161
Give All to Love (2016)
for SATB Chorus and Organ
Text by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Huff Memorial Choir; Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Duration: 2.5 min.
Dedication: in memoriam Harry Lyn Huff (1952–2016)
Publisher: The Sacred Music Press
Performance materials available from the publisher.
Give All to Love
Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Nothing refuse.
Leave all for love;
Yet, hear me, yet,
One word more thy heart behooved,
One pulse more of firm endeavor,—
Keep thee today,
Tomorrow, forever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), alt.