To the Moon (2023)

I wrote this piece for no particular reason other than my own enjoyment. I really liked Shelley’s text considering the loneliness of the moon (poor gal!).

SSATBB + Soprano Solo

Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I

Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,

Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth, —

And ever changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy?

II

Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,

That gazes on thee till in thee it pities ...