Duration:
7'

Instrumentation:
sopr 4343 4331 timp 5perc 2hp pf str(16.14.12.10.8)

Based on texts by:
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

“These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and
lands, they are
not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing
or next to
nothing,
If they do not enclose everything they are next to
nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the
riddle they are
nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they
are nothing.
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and
the water is,
This is the common air that bathes the globe.
This is the breath of laws and songs and behavior,
This is the tasteless water of souls…. this is the true
sustenance” – Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass