arranged and performed by David W Solomons The score (with optional alternative harmonies as used in this performance) is available from http://www.myscorestore.com/product/view/id/2875/the-meeting-of-the-waters.html The mp3 can be obtained on the CD "While my cat gently snoozes: http://www.cdbaby.com/dwschorale7 Poem (on a traditional air) by Thomas Moore: There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart; Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart. Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene Her Purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'Twas not the soft magic of streamlet and rill Oh no - it was something more exquisite still. 'Twas that friends the beloved of my bosom were near, Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear, And who felt how the best charmes of nature improved, When we see them reflected from looks that we love. Sweet Vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best, Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease, And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace. Images of Avoca and Memorial to Thomas Moore http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ticketautomat and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sarah777