Where Comes Peace? SSA Choir & Piano

"Whence Comes Peace" is a level 3 piece for SSA choir & piano. It is an excellent work for advanced middle school, high school, college, and community choirs. It is one of three pieces from a collection using texts by Canadian poet, Bliss William Carman (1861 - 1929). This work is based on his poem entitled "Peace" (1922). There have been edits in the last lines, so the work could end with "who give their lives to love". Carman uses beautiful imagery of the sun setting over a forest valley, and the quiet and stillness "as sandalled dusk goes by" to frame the question "Whence comes peace?" The answer, given by "one beyond a name", is that "peace only comes to them who guard their lives from shame, holding truth for guide, and who give their hearts to love". It is a wonderful text that can be interpreted in many so ways. Whether as one approaches the evening of their life, wondering when life's peace will come, or one reflecting on the day just spent and what brings peace in each day. The text could be viewed in any one of various contexts for life, and is deeply needed to be heard today. Also available in SATB & Piano voicing.