About the work

An art song for solo voice and piano, setting Samuel Longfellow’s meditation on the dissolving boundary between earth and sky at dusk. The vocal writing moves in extended, expressive phrases aligned to the text’s natural contours, while the piano sustains a consistent atmosphere of quiet radiance throughout.

The text progresses from vivid natural imagery toward reflection on mortality and spiritual transcendence, making it well suited to recital programming alongside Romantic and late-Romantic repertoire.