Alway Something Sings - Calvin College Alumni Choir

"Alway Something Sings" by Dan Forrest performed by the Calvin College Alumni Choir in their 2018 Spring Concert
First United Methodist Church - Grand Rapids, MI
Director - Dr. Pearl Shangkuan
Accompanist - Dr. Kenneth Bos

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Beautiful 💟
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s text set for voices.
TEXT:
Let me go where’er I will
I hear a skyborn music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that’s fair, from all that’s foul,
Alway, alway something sings.
It is not only in the rose,
It is not only in the bird,
Not only where the rainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings.
‘Tis not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the red-breast’s mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers.
But in the darkest, meanest things
There alway, alway something sings.