EDGAR WARREN WILLIAMS

ECCE PUER
for Mixed Chorus

text by
James Joyce

Edgar Warren Williams

909 Goose Creek Road
Raphine VA 24472 USA
1.540.348.3182 — ewwill@gmail.com
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ECCE PUER
text by
James Joyce EDGAR WARREN WILLIAMS
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Ecce Puer
by
James Joyce
—

Of the dark past

A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn.
Calm in his cradle
The living lies.
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes!
Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass.
A child is sleeping:
An old man gone.
O, father for-saken,
Forgive your son!