The second of six songs in the cycle Yeats Songs. Recording available here: https://soundcloud.com/edmund-scott-miller/yeats-2-before-the-world-was
Yeats Songs is a colorful setting of six poems by William Butler Yeats that follows an ambiguous speaker through the Irish countryside while entertaining introverted meditations on love, self-discovery, and empathy. Recurring imagery of a mountain hare is but one element of the extended metaphors for pursuit, loss, and memory that are threaded through the text.
The score for the complete cycle is available here: https://issuu.com/edmundscottmiller/docs/edmundscottmiller-yeats_songs_2016