VOCES8: 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers' by Christopher Tin

VOCES8 sings an a cappella version of 'Hope is the Thing with Feathers' by Christopher Tin, at the VOCES8 Centre in London. This piece is taken from the larger work 'The Lost Birds', available to stream/purchase at https://christophertin.lnk.to/TheLost...

Text by Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.