Animals

Composer: David Heuser
Instrumentation: voice, piano

Music transposed to suit any vocal range. Please specify low and high pitches
Range for the piece: one octave plus a minor 7th.

Year Composed: 2000
Duration: 2 minutes, 30 seconds
Pages (score): 5
Cost: Purchase: $3.00

Program Notes:

Text is by Walt Whitman:

I think I could turn and live with animals; they are so placid and self-contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
No one is dissatisfied - no one is demented with the mania of owning things;
No one kneels to another, nor to his kind that live thousands of years ago;
No one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

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