Prelude: A wayfarer's song
Part I: Life is song : the quest for music and meaning
Fitful dreams
Life and the fight for word
Primitive aloneness : our true home
Receptivity and the quest for meaning-filled living
Loneliness and deliverance
Part II: Lamentation and woe : the quest for the mother
Shadows of sorrow-filled lamentation
Ode to the cup of bitterness
Pain and bearing
Lamentation and sorrow
Tears for want of comforting protection
Loneliness whom I must befriend
Where joy and sorrow meet
Part III: Intimacy and bearing : the quest for the Father
Life's masculine character
For what are we set up?
Soft words for mother
For what divine operation are we set up?
Journey to the land where heart grows
Pain and intimacy : the pause in bearing
One step
along the way
A resonant chorus.