The New Moon, by David Childs performed by TCU’s University Singers, conducted by Dr. Marla Ringel.
Elijah Ong, piano.
Day, you have bruised and beaten me,
As rain beats down the bright, proud sea,
Beaten my body, bruised my soul,
Left me nothing lovely or whole -
Yet I have wrested a gift from you,
Day that dies in dusky blue:
For suddenly over the factories
I saw a moon in the cloudy seas
A wisp of beauty all alone
In a world as hard and gray as stone
Oh who could be bitter and want to die
When a maiden moon wakes up in the sky?
- Sara Teasdale