The text of this piece is a poem titled ‘i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)’ by the American writer e. e. cummings; the odd punctuation and syntax used in its transcription here is an example of cummings’s idiosyncratic style. Whitacre’s evocative adaptation of the piece for an SATB...
I carry your heart with me
(i carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
By only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
And whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
Higher than thе soul can hope or mind can hide)
And this is the wondеr that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
I carry your heart was written by Eric Whitacre & e. e. cummings.
Eric Whitacre released I carry your heart on Wed Feb 14 2018.