Corrine Byrne (soprano), Kemp Jernigan (oboe), and Donald Berman (piano), perform Patrick Walker's setting the poem Continuities by Walt Whitman. This performance was part of the Divergent Studio at Longy School of Music of Bard College, June 18th 2019.

Text: CONTINUITIES.
[From a talk I had lately with a German spiritualist.]

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier
fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons
continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

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