"This Evening of Content"

Grace Before Sleep

How can our minds and bodies be

Grateful enough that we have spent

Here in this generous room, we three,

This evening of content?

Each one of us has walked through storm

And fled the wolves along the road;

But here the hearth is wide and warm,

And for this shelter and this light

Accept, O Lord, our thanks tonight.

Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933

Sung here in a setting by Susan LaBarr by the East Carolina University Chamber Singers

Happy at home, November 2013