One of the many characteristics of a great poem is that it spawns multiple interpretations - words that speak on many levels to a wide audience. Such is the case with this poem by Sara Teasdale. In my view, the “person” in the poem, realizing there is a beautiful world ahead with “sure stars shining” and peace as pure as “crystal,” quickens their footsteps to that place where they will “make a world of their own devising,” pure as fresh snow on roof-tops, and as wonderful as a traveler among the stars. It is, in fact, a sense of freedom and realized destiny from the deepest place in one's soul. It is euphoric. This musical setting seeks to capture that internal ecstasy and “beyond this world utopia” that was the reality Sara Teasdale so wanted, and seemingly never achieved. “Music holy and low” is a metaphor for her “quiet” assurance that a better world waits ahead.