Rest

This piece, Rest, is based on Christina Rossettis poem of the same name. It is an 8-part a cappella piece best suited for advanced high school and college choirs. While the song doesnt quite use the entire text of the poem, I hope that its swells and flutters remind you of the same thing that her words do: that deaths brief shock is nothing but the phantom fear of a grief that need no longer exist, that we only leave our loved ones to slumber for a while, and that we may understand the sorrow of a brief parting from them to be merely the promise of an even greater joy one day, when we all rise from our rest.