"The Gift to Sing," by Reginal Wright

for SATB div. choir and piano
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Performed by members of the Cross Timbers Civic Chorale, Mansfield High School, Tarleton State University, The University of Central Missouri, The University of North Texas Choir and SA Chorale, The University of Texas at Arlington, and The Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy.

Text:
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path,
And blackening clouds about me cling;
But, oh, I have a magic way
To turn the gloom to cheerful day—
I softly sing.

And if the way grows darker still,
Shadowed by Sorrow’s somber wing,
With glad defiance in my throat,
I pierce the darkness with a note,
And sing, and sing.

I brood not over the broken past,
Nor dread whatever time may bring;
No nights are dark, no days are long,
While in my heart there swells a song,
And I can sing.

- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

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