As originally recorded (SATB) by VOCES8 on their 2019 album, Enchanted Isle (click to hear preview), this soaring setting of Hafiz-inspired poetry by Daniel Ladinsky speaks of the matchless beauty of unconditional love. For SSAA a cappella choir with optional solo cello.
(Note: this is an SSAA a cappella arrangement of movement III of LUX: The Dawn From On High, originally for chorus and full orchestra, small orchestra, or chamber ensemble.)
TEXT:
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe
Me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.
-Daniel Ladinsky, from “The Gift”, copyright 1999; used by permission.