Beckenhorst welcomes Brad Nix to our catalog with this stirring setting of Charles Dickens' aspirational text. Scored for SATB choir and piano, its comforting themes are suitable for school or church choirs:

"The pure, the bright, the beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth, the impulses to wordless prayer, the streams of love and truth, the longing after something lost, the spirit's yearning cry, the striving after better hopes, these things can never die...'

"The timid hand stretched forth to aid a brother in his need; a kindly word in grief's dark your that proves a friend indeed; the plea for mercy softly breathed, when justice threatens high, the sorrow of a contrite heart, these things can never die..."