1977
We Met By Chance
Composed by 
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison "We Met By Chance" is from Jeraldine Herbison's Five Art Songs for Voice and Piano and is a setting of a text by William Curtis.
Text
“We Met By Chance”
by William Curtis
We met by chance this man and I
he looking seeking straining to communicate
and finding few who cared to listen
We met by chance this man and I
I listened and found pleasure in his words.
Sheet Music
A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers
H. Leslie Adams, Mable Bailey, Charles S. Brown, Wallace McClain Cheatham, Adolphus Hailstork, Jacqueline B. Hairston, William H. Henderson, Jeraldine Saunders Herbison, Betty Jackson King, William Foster McDaniel, Undine Smith Moore, Byron Motley, Barbara Sherrill, Robert Owens, Nadine Shanti, Frederick Tillis, Dolores White, Julius P. Williams