Originally commissioned by the ACDA, Walker's setting of the E.E. Cummings poem has long been popular on the festival circuit for treble and mixed choirs. An additional voicing for tenor-bass choirs is now
"Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas..." This charming poem by Rudyard Kipling is the