Second December Choral work: i thank you God

So I've taken one of my favorite poems (plus one I've already set for voice and piano) and produced a version for SATB (8-part splits at the end) with some interesting metrical things. I'm trying to expand my horizons a bit when it comes to rhythm and meter, since for the longest time i wrote everything in 4/4 with no changes in tempo or anything. I really wanted to concentrate on the melodic and harmonic aspects of my style. Now I really feel that I have a "sound" that I like to write, and I can expand upon it further by doing interesting things with rhythm and texture and the other things that make music so wonderfully diverse. A lot of the themes are common between both versions I've written, but this version is much broader, trying to play with subtle shifts in texture to highlight the textual things I find important or interesting. The tenor and alto lines are really important to me in this piece...they weave back and forth and I really explore the different colors both of the voices can make. There are definitely some things that will probably be changed as I come back to the piece later, but for now I really like the sound it gives, I know I got chills at points when i was writing it...this is definitely one I sketched out long before I brought it to the computer. I knew where I wanted to be tonally with it...it was a matter of bringing the different elements together cohesively. Adding it to Myspace soon.