A setting of some of Rabindranath Tagore’s most spiritual and inspiring words, drawn from his Nobel-Prize-winning collection Gitanjali.
All Things Rush On
Category: choral
Instrumentation: SATB chorus & piano
Status: published
Duration: 5m 45s
Completed: September 2019
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Commission: The Hugh Hodgson School of Music of the University of Georgia for the UGA Hodgson Singers and the 2019 NCMEA High School Honor Choir, Daniel Bara, conductor
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Additional Credits: text by Rabindranath Tagore
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- All things rush on.
The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.
I feel my limbs are made glorious
by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.All things rush on,
they stop not,
they look not behind,
they rush on.Keeping steps with that restless, rapid music,
seasons come dancing and pass away—
colours, tunes, and perfumes pour in endless cascades
in the abounding joy that scatters and gives up
and dies every moment.It is the same life that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth.
It is the same life in numberless blades of grass
and tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked
in the ocean-cradle of birth and death,
in ebb and flow.Is it beyond thee to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm?
to be tossed and lost and broken in the whirl of this fearful joy?The same stream of life
that runs through my veins
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.
My limbs are made glorious
by the touch of this world of life:
colours, tunes, and perfumes
in endless cascades.All things rush on.
