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SATB [SSAA also available]
Unaccompanied (with rehearsal piano part)
Duration: ~ 2 minutes
Difficulty: Moderate (some close/clustered harmony)

This quietly emotional anthem with text by the poet Alice Meynell focuses on an unheard, hidden moment at the very centre of the Easter story.

All night had shout of men and cry 
    Of woeful women filled His way; 
Until that noon of sombre sky 
    On Friday, clamour and display 
Smote Him; no solitude had He, 
No silence, since Gethsemane.

Public was Death; but Power, but Might, 
    But Life again, but Victory, 
Were hushed within the dead of night, 
    The shutter’d dark, the secrecy. 
And all alone, alone, alone, 
He rose again behind the stone.