This text from an old Southern folk hymn is given new original music in this anthem setting for SATB, cello, and piano. The voice parts are accessible. The tenors and basses do sing a verse alone, but in unison to two parts. The sum total makes a sort of contemplative tapestry in which the cello moves in and out of the foreground, and so do the voices. Despite the despair of the text, there is also comfort and reassurance here.