String quartet
Based on a poem by Dag Hammarskjold:
Time's flight. Our flight in time--flight from time.
Flying on strong wings--with time,
Never lingering, never anticipating:
A rest in the movement--our victory over movement,
Lightly, lightly--
Soaring above the dread of the waters,
In the moment of dedication,
All strength gathered, all life at stake,
Plunging into the deep.
But no rest on the waves, constrained by currents.
Again over the waters, stillness over the swell,
Borne by the wind with the strength of our own wings,
Never land, never nesting place--
Until the final plunge
When the deep takes back its own.