When We Build
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Description
For accomplished children's choir (divisi), or SSA choir and piano. A wonderful anthem for dedication of a building or any other festival occasion. Winning composition: Cincinnati Children's Choir Competition 2010. Text by John Ruskin (alt.).
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
Let it not be for present delight or present use alone.
Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for;
and let us think, as we lay stone on stone,
that a time is to come when those stones will be held
sacred because our hands have touched them,
and that all will say, as they look upon
the labor and wrought substance of them,
“See! what was built for us.”