Dale Warland Choral Series-Composed for the Clarion Chamber Chorale of Omaha Nebraska Dale Warland's To A Young Child is a setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem 'Spring and Fall'. This work for SATB choira cappella is full of beautiful figurative and profound language. It speaks to the human condition in a compact way. And although the subject is complex the message is simple and requires similar simplicity in performance withfreedom and rubato in this powerful and inspirational composition.