Elegy -choral (or quartet)

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I hope this is the correct section for this... (as I also hope I get the attachements correct....

It is a Elegy written for my (by marriage) cousin- never performed, and much edited
He was tragically taken from this world in an automobile accident at the
age of 21. He was one of those rare people that "walked the walk," moreso than just "talked the talk." By that I mean living the 'true Christain life" (not popular these days especially in one so young. I originally was working on a brass ensemble piece but the text that I added kept coming to mind so profoundly I had no choice but to add it. (Far out of my league- I typically never even attempt lyrics)... Anyway, the first rendering was for brass ensemble and full choir, which I later had to edit (due to vocal range in the sopranos (I asked a singer to look at it she asked if I was insane..) later I reduced it to just choir (8 parts), again the ranges were a bit much.... so... here we go now with a quartet version (squeezing the parts and combining the lyrics as many were duplicated already)... Anyone that has a vocal background please advise if I need to further edit (also advise if the text may be lost due to overlapping in some sections- again I'm not a vocal writer by any stretch and will take any advice).
Duration is roughly 4 minutes - for the female voices I used oboe for the male voices I used cello and stringbass. I attached the score so you can see the flow of the text and ranges... Playback is from Finale 07.

(well I attempted to attach the score -I will do so in a subsequent post as I can not figure how to add 2 attachements at the moment)

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Score pdf