boundless joy
Poet/Lyricist:
Catherine Dalton
boundless joy attempts to put forth into music the unnamable - that ecstatic joy that can be found in a single moment, maybe if only once in a lifetime.
Premiere:
Unitarian Universalist Association's General Assembly Minister's Choir, Beth Syverson, director
Level:
Moderate
Text:
boundless joy
this darkness surrounds
and swallows me whole
free of mind,
free of body,
free even of breath
all is joy
boundless joy,
is all
joy,
boundless joy
© 2010 Catherine Dalton
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