A cappella This exceptional work for accomplished a cappella choirs takes Robert Herrick's text about seeking comfort in the welcome embrace of death and shifts the point of view to invoke music which strives toward a new life without pain, suffering, war, or famine.  A deeply moving work which treats this profound text as a metaphor for life.  "Fall on me like a silent dew, or like those maiden showers, which, by the peep of day, do strew a baptism o'er the flowers..."