From the recording Hu-Man: A Choral Autobiography
Music: Daniel Brewbaker
Poem by e.e. cummings
Soloist: Craig Goodwin Ortiz-DeLeon
Lyrics
"o purple finch
please tell me why
this summer world(and you and i
who love so much to live)
must die"
"if i
should tell you anything"
(that eagerly sweet caroling
self answers me)
"i could not sing"