Darest Thou Now, O Soul

A grassy field that disappears into mists

SKU: RP003

Price: $1.50

Length: 5'15"

Instrumentation: SATB choir with divisi

Delivery: PDF score will be delivered via email within a few days

Written in the Spring of 2009, Darest Thou Now, O Soul is a setting of Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title for SATB chorus.

Darest thou now, O soul,

Walk out with me toward the unknown region,

Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?

No map there, nor guide,

Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,

Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.

I know it not, O soul,

Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,

All waits undream’d of in that region, that inaccessible land.

Till when the ties loosen,

All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,

Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.

Then we burst forth, we float,

In Time and Space, O soul, prepared for them,

Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil, O soul.