Lament for UR for SATB chorus (2018) by Tyler Versluis

Central Bucks High School West Choir directed by Dr. Joseph Ohrt
Metropolitan United Church, Toronto.

MELI URUTA
Joy is born away
by the whirlwind.

ADUIM
By the wind
no tall grass remains.

URIM!
My city, built for protection,
it crushes,
it makes sad,
O, my father.

Ruin makes sad,
O, my father.

Anon. (Lament of Ur, fragments, ca. 2000 BC)