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"Sin, Death" is the third installment of the song cycle, Parents Who Passed. Music by Sarah Grace Huntting. Performed by Desirée Beatty.Words based on a poem of the same title by the Norwegian writer, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910).

The text portrays the concepts of sin and death as two sisters. In this poem, Death plots against Sin, telling her to get married. However, after the wedding, Death carried her sister, Sin’s, new husband away, dead.

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