All Creatures Live Their Lives in Ecstasy

Music: Voluntarie
By William Byrd. Sequenced by John Sankey.

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All creatures live their lives in ecstasy, Nor is one moment less than any other. Gigantic redwoods tremble in their pleasure, Each root agog in search of buried treasure, Light the music singing through their sea, A wound of joy from which none can recover.