A Song of Joys - I. A Song of Joys

from Soaring Spirits by UBC Symphony Orchestra and Choirs

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I A Song of Joys
O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
O the mother’s joys!
The watching, the endurance, the precious love,
O to realize space!
To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
Knowst thou the excellent joys of youth?
Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face?
Joy of the glad light-beaming day, joy of the wide-breath’d games?
Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse 
and drinking?


O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
O for the sunshine and motion of waves 
in a song!
O to have life henceforth a poem of new joys!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on!
To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,
A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, 
full of joys.

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from Soaring Spirits, released October 1, 2021

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