1986

If There Be Sorrow

Composed by David N. Baker
Text by Mari Evans

Through This Vale of Tears Song Collection

"If There Be Sorrow" is the second song of David Baker's song cycle Through This Vale of Tears: In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr..

Text

If There Be Sorrow
by Mari Evans

If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
unattained
to these add one:
love withheld
restrained