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O How I Love

for SSAATTBB Voices    

duration 4'

Commissioned by: The Heartland Chamber Chorale,
Robert Nance, Conductor

World Premiere: 2003, Fort Wayne, Indiana


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Heartland Chamber Chorale,
Robert Nance, Conductor
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Text:
 
  O how I love, on a fair summer's eve,
When streams of light pour down the golden west,
And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds, far — far away to leave
All meaner thoughts, and take a sweet reprieve
From little cares; to find, with easy quest,
A fragrant wild, with Nature's beauty drest,
And there into delight my soul deceive.

                                                         John Keats (1816)