TTBB, piano
Written for the Pacific Lutheran University Men’s Chorus performance at the NW NAfME Conference in February 2011, and dedicated to my father, Edward Galante, on his 60th birthday.
Text
I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
— Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)