Music for a while shall all your cares beguile.*
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

haba na haba hujaza kibaba

Swahili proverb*

singer by singer we bring in our voices 
little by little we build something bigger 
cast off your cares and join in the chorus 
drumming and dancing we sing out together

voices in time make music

free translations of the proverb and other lines by the composer

Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the Spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers...

Percy Bysse Shelley (1792 - 1822)