2002

Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

Text by Walt Whitman
"Youth, Day, Old Age and Night" is scored for high voice and piano and is a setting of a poem by Walt Whitman, with music by Jonathan Bailey Holland. This setting was published in 2002.

Text

YOUTH, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force, fascination?

 

Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness.