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.'