Music by B. E. Boykin (b. 1989), poetry by George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898)
Performed by Jocelyn Pride, Thea Tullman Moore, Amanda Densmoor, Claire Galloway, Mandy Brown, Elizebeth Barnes, and pianist Yejin Lee as part of the program, "Phenomenal Women: Spring's Renewal"
Recorded by Andrew Bohman on May 7, 2023 at Grace United Methodist Church, Baltimore
"Music of Life"
Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard.
Music is in all growing things.
Music is in all growing things.
Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
If poet from the vibrant strings
Of his poor heart a measure flings,
Music is in all growing things.
Laugh not, that he no trumpet blows,
Music is in all growing things, music,
It may be that Heaven hears and knows,
His language of low listenings.
Music, music is in all living things.