Hymn to Music

 

Joe D. Markley (b. 1953)

 

Here’s to brotherhood and song

And voices singing full and strong.
Soft the strains resound and rise,

Growing ‘till they fill the skies.

 

Short this fleeting life may last.
All our work to dust may pass.
Let us lasting tribute bring.
Unto Music let us sing.

 

Sweet the sounds of music springs

from our hearts when voices sing.
Not for gain or earthly treasure,

Sing we for our joy and pleasure.

 

 

This piece was performed on Octarium’s Ode to Music Concert, November 2003.