Monday, May 12, 2008

i thank You God

i thank You God for most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural
which is infinite which is yes (i who have died
am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday;
this is the birthday of life and love and wings:
and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing
seeing breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginably You? (now the ears of my ears awake
and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e. e. cummings

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you heard Eric Whitacre's setting of this piece?

Nicole said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm in ecstasy . . . Who's Eric Whitacre? Should I know?

Anonymous said...

Eric Whitacre is a young American composer who's written some wonderful choral music over the past 15 years or so. He's a Mormon, so most of his music comes with a generally Christian flavor.

This is a good recording of his choral work.