Year
2011
Duration
10'
Category
Chorus
Premiere
November 6, 2011
Festal Evensong for All Saints' Sunday
Church of the Incarnation, New York, NY
The Incarnation Choir
Dr. Matthew Lewis, organist
Commission
commissioned by Matthew Lewis and The Church of the Incarnation
Texts

Robert Herrick

Parts
#TitleDedicationInstrumentation
1Prelude: To His Sweet Saviourto Matthew Lewisunaccompanied chorus
2Divination by a Daffodillto Matthew Lewissolo soprano, unaccompanied chorus, organ
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Boosey & Hawkes

TO HIS SWEET SAVIOUR

Night hath no wings, to him that cannot sleep;
And Time seems then, not for to flie, but creep;
Slowly her chariot drives, as if that she
Had broke her wheele, or crackt her axeltree.
Just so it is with me, who list'ning, pray
The winds, to blow the tedious night away;
That I might see the cheerfull peeping day. S
ick is my heart; 0 Saviour! do Thou please
To make my bed soft in my sicknesses:
Lighten my candle, so that I beneath
Sleep not for ever in the vaults of death:
Let me Thy voice betimes i' th morning heare;
Call, and Ile come; say Thou, the when, and where
Draw me, but first, and after Thee Ile run,
And make no one stop, till my race be done.

DIVINATION BY A DAFFODIL
When a Daffodil I see,
I hinging down his head t'wards me;
Guesse I may, what I must be:
First, I shall decline my head;
Secondly, I shall be dead;    
Lastly, safely buryed.