This is a setting in English of the St. Michael Prayer traditionally prayed in the Roman Catholic Church. The music is loosely based on three plainchant fragments referring to the Archangel Saint Michael.
1. "How does the heart break" 2. "Come, Thyrsis, to the grass" 3. "For the moment we are feverless" 4. "This song laments of love" 5. "Ah, we do know the atom's agony"