Steadfast, Beating

Name: Steadfast, Beating
SKU: LK-067-04
Availability: InStock

$2.50

A grateful farewell, this piece captures the bittersweet crossroads of leaving — honoring the bonds between students, teachers, and the places that shaped them. Scored for easy preparation for graduation, it pulses with a steady, heartbeat-like rhythm as it weaves together seasonal imagery and the landscape of home, with an option for choirs to personalize to their own geography. Appropriate for ensembles reflecting on all types of life transitions.

Poet/Lyricist: Molly Kiefer

Voicing: SATB a cappella

Duration: 3:19

SKU: LK-067-04 Categories: Mixed Voices, Secular

Sometimes what looks like love
is love–a *[bluff-cropped] town in
sun-swept light is love’s radiating center.

Sometimes what looks like love
is love–the spangled maples, the dazzle of early snow,
a thousand green births every spring.

You know, don’t you
that my love is a river-deep love, will follow your courses,
it will be steadfast, beating.

We say hold
when we mean to pull someone tight, to say
I am here.
What does it mean, then,
To let go,
to promise you’ve learned all you could and now,
you’ll bear the air on light wings, look down
upon this town and move into this glittering world?

You know, don’t you
that my love is a river-deep love, will follow your courses,
it will be steadfast, beating. (2x)

– Molly Kiefer