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Page 1: Epitaph for the Race of Man - GARROP€¦ · SG126 Inkjar Publishing Company • mail@garrop.com Epitaph for the Race of Man from Sonnets of War and Mankind For SATB (div.) a cappella

SG126 Inkjar Publishing Company

www.garrop.com • [email protected]

Epitaph for the Race of Man

from Sonnets of War and Mankind

For SATB (div.) a cappella choir

Stacy Garrop

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Epitaph for the Race of Manfrom Sonnets of War and Mankind

Commissioned by Robert Geary and Volti for its 26th Season

Stacy Garrop Summer 2003

Sonnet byEdna St. Vincent Millay

Music © 2002 Stacy Garrop • All Rights Reserved • Inkjar Publishing Company • www.garrop.com"Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea." © 1934, 1962 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.

Words used by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.

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