Optional notes bring the high note of the piece to a B5. Among the fluttering, phantom forms of those who had been buried, Orpheus drew close to Pluto, King of Shadows, under whom the joyless dead endure their endless doom. My wife will yet be yours when she has lived in full the course of her allotted years. Voice part has higher tessitura in middle of song. Nice legato lines.
Text is short.
With stitches set in even rows. Somewhat dissonant and chromatic but less challengingly so than some of the others in this cycle. More geese than swans now live, More fools than wise. A second setting - less panicked and prickly than the first. The first setting - spat out, angry, proscriptive.