I Had No Time to Hate for SATB chorus (2020)

3-1/2 minutes

   One of fourteen works written during the Covid pandemic in 2020, I Had No Time to Hate is a straightforward setting of a poem by Emily Dickenson:

          I had no time to hate, because
          The grave would hinder me,
          And life was not so ample I
          Could finish enmity.

          Nor had I time to love; but since
          Some industry must be,
          The little toil of love, I thought,
​          Was large enough for me.

     The setting was written for Triad (Boston's Choral Collective), who premiered it in May of 2021.

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