The sea is awash with roses (2000)
for men’s choir [3:30]


Composed for the Harvard Glee Club. Available on Albany Records.

The sea is awash with roses O they blow 
Upon the land

The still hills fill with their scent
O the hills flow on their sweetness
As on God’s hand

O love, it is so little we know of pleasure
Pleasure that lasts as the snow

But the sea is awash with roses O they blow 
Upon the land

[Kenneth Patchen]