Sous-titre : « Symphony for Soprano, Bass-baritone, Chorus and Orchestra ».
Texte de Henry Bennet Brewster.

Part I. Close on Freedom
1. The Prisoner communes with his Soul: 'I awoke in the middle of the night'.
2. Voices sing of immortality: 'We are full of immortality'.
3. The Prisoner asks the secret of emancipation: 'I was alone with sorrow'.
4. His Soul (echosed by Voices) replies: 'There is no secret'.
5. He asks in what shape emancipation will come ('Who are our saviours?'): 'Will it return to me with the same face'.
6. The Voices reply: 'Others are elsewhere, under other names'.
7. Orchestral Interlude: The first glimmer of Dawn, Andante -
8. The Prisoner understands his own immortality: 'In the faint grey morning I hear'.

Part II. The Deliverance
9. Chorale Prelude in the Prison Chapel (The Prisoner awakes.).
10. His Soul tells him the end of the struggle is at hand. 'The struggle is over; the time has come'.
11. He hears his guests (the elements of his personality) moving to depart. 'I hear them overhead moving to depart'.
12. Pastorale: Sunset calm.
13. He disbands his ego. 'I disband myself'.
14. Voices sing (in Greek mode) the indestructibility of human passions. 'The laughter we have laughed'.
15. Death calls him (The Last Post); gloring, he obeys the summons. 'For years you have been conning your lesson'.
16. His farewell; his triumph; his peace. 'This is no leavetaking'.