Scott Robbins, composer

Passage

SSA chorus, piano

(also SATB chorus, piano)

5:30

 

Text:

Only empty hands

Did I bring into this world:

Barefoot, I leave it.

 

Coming and going: 

Two ordinary events,

That got entangled.

 

Kozan Ichikyo, 13th c.

(on the day of his death)