The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out. (Bass)
Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer's city cease? (Chorus)
How can I cherish my man in such days.? (Soprano)
A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)
The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)
The Narrator. And the boy's mother wrote a letter. (Bass)
The Mother, the Uncle and Aunt, and the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)
A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)
The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)
The Boy sings in his Prison. My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)
A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)