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Sunset over beach in Maui Hawaii

Choral

But Perhaps God Needs the Longing     

SATB chorus, piano

Year Written: 2000

Duration: 6:00

Theme: Spiritual

Commissioned By
Commissioned through Faith Partners Consortium/Otto Bremer Foundation/American Composers Forum, 2000      

Text: Nelly Sachs 
But perhaps God needs the longing, wherever else should it dwell,                       
Which with kisses and tears and sighs fills mysterious spaces of air -                   
Which perhaps is invisible soil from which roots of stars grow and swell -         
And the radiant voice across fields of parting which calls to reunion there?

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