is intended for a choir of between 12 and about 40 voices, although it may also be given by just six singers, one to a part (SSATBB). The piece can be performed unaccompanied, if no suitableorgan is available, simply by leaving approximately two crotchet beats of silence between the end of the last note of one verse and the beginning of the next.

Underlying the melody is a simple rhythm which is sometimesexpanded or contracted. In the first verse the po...