The work quotes the final phrase of the celebrated Song of Solomon verse but the majority of the work is based on the poem by nineteenth-century journalist and author, Sir Edwin Arnold. As such, the work is appropriate for concert/secular use, as well as in a variety of liturgical and religious settings.

This piece is dedicated to my wife, Emily, and was first performed at our wedding on Saturday, 2nd July, 2016. I agreed to compose a setting as long as Emily selected the text. After many possibilities, we agreed that a combination of the secular poem combined with a quotation from the Bible.

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"Destiny" by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904): Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours / for one lone soul, another lonely soul - Each chasing each through all the weary hours, / And meeting strangely at one sudden goal; / Then blend they - like green leaves with golden flowers, / Into one beautiful and perfect whole - / And life’s long night is ended, / and the way lies open onward to eternal day.

From the Song of Solomon, 2:10-13: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.