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The Gift
for choir
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Duration: ca. 3'
Year: 2021
Premiered by the MHC Chamber Singers
2nd place winner of the Mount Holyoke College Pioneering Choral Voices Competition
Canadian Premiere by the Vancouver Chamber Choir
Program Note
The Gift
by Sara Teasdale
What can I give you, my lord, my lover,
You who have given the world to me,
Showed me the light and the joy that cover
The wild sweet earth and restless sea?
All that I have are gifts of your giving—
If I gave them again, you would find them old,
And your soul would weary of always living
Before the mirror my life would hold.
What shall I give you, my lord, my lover?
The gift that breaks the heart in me:
I bid you awake at dawn and discover
I have gone my way and left you free.
Listen
Live performance recording by the Vancouver Chamber Choir
September 27, 2024
Pacific Spirit United Church
The GiftJoanne S. Na
00:00 / 04:49
JOANNE S. NA
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