Paulus, Stephen: Little Elegy

Little Elegy (2010)

Withouten you no rose can grow;
No leaf be green if never seen
Your sweetest face;
No bird have grace or power to sing;
Or anything be kind, or fair,
And you nowhere.

Words: Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
Music: Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)