An Affirmation

for unaccompanied SATB choir

Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.'