Setting the emotionally powerful poem A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale which implores all humankind to do all that we can for those who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow. Composer Gallo has juxtaposed the Latin text Ubi Caritas - Where there is charity and love, God is there. with the Teasdale text God Pity all the homeless ones to create a moving and challenging piece both musically and emotionally