First published as a poem in 1930, then adapted to music in 2011. The adaptation calls for six singers (three tenor, three baritone) and six wineglasses, tuned by partially filling them with water. The wineglasses give the song a lovely ethereal quality, but finding skilled wineglass players may be difficult.
The composer’s website discusses the song here, including an audio recording and links from which to buy sheet music.
No relation to the song from Les Miserables, which is very differnt.
Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still,
And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;
Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still.
And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty.
