Voicing: SATB a cappella
Duration: 1' 57"
 
This is a setting, in Latin, of lines from poem 5 by the ancient roman poet Catullus. Suns may set, and suns may rise again: but when our brief light has set, night is one long everlasting sleep.
 
The recording is by Michael Waldron and London Choral Sinfonetta (select the final image above)