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: $7.00 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 on is dissatisfied - no one is demented with the mania of owning things;
No on kneels to another, nor to his kind that live thousands of years ago;
No on is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
