Kuster | Moonrise

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for Soprano Solo and SATB Chorus Moonrise

Music by Kristin Kuster Poetry by Megan Levad 2013

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Moonrise

for Soprano Solo and SATB Chorus

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Music by Kristin Kuster

Poetry by Megan Levad 2013

Text by Megan Levad

Suppose the lions all get up and go, And all the brooks and soldiers run away?

W.H. Auden, “Villan elle”

Again, again, again cries out the sun, as the bees hum each heart down to slumber. Our past is here the moonrise has begun.

Go on, shout down the aching, landless dove; the hounds are soon to be our only labor. Again, again, again, cries out the sun.

We only wear ourselves when we unlove, our little gambles someone else’s dinner. Our past is here, the moonrise has begun.

And who would miss us? All our glim and shun, the flatter selves we make to show each other. Again, again, again, cries out the sun.

Ancient things—trees, oceans, beauty—will abscond; the eel will talk no longer with the river. The past is here, our moonrise has begun.

What if we need to be here, every one?

The world will hold us, long as we will let it. Again, again, each day cries out the sun— But the past is here, our moonrise has begun.

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First printing of this edition, December 2023

to Eugene Rogers & the 2013 Lisbon Summer Choral Fest Chamber Choir

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