RISE – mvt 1 from the Emily Carr Suite

LYRICS

Rise
quivering
to the treetops
and to the sky.
Joyously,
rise quivering
tremulously
to the treetops.

The spirit must be moving through
a thirst for more
a desire to rise.

There is something bigger than fact:
The underlying spirit
all it stands for,
the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Feel this growth – the surging upward,
this expansion – the pulsing life