DESCRIPTION:
This original version of Eric Whitacre's song "Sleep" was later rewritten due to copyright reasons. The performance is by The Concordia Choir of Moorhead, Minnesota, and is conducted by Rene Clausen. The text is Robert Frost's poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.


Tags: Eric Whitacre, Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Sleep, poem,music