by William Motherwell (1797 - 1835)
He is gone!
Language: English
He is gone! he is gone! Like the leaf from the tree; Or the down that is blown By the wind o'er the lea. He is fled, the light-hearted! Yet a tear must have started To his eye, when he parted From love-stricken me! He is fled: he is fled! Like a gallant so free, Plumed cap on his head, And sharp sword by his knee; While his gay feathers fluttered, Surely something he muttered, He at least must have uttered A farewell to me! He 's away! he 's away To far lands o'er the sea, -- And long is the day Ere home he can be; But where'er his steed prances, Amid thronging lances, Sure he'll think of the glances That love stole from me! He is gone! he is gone! Like the leaf from the tree; But his heart is of stone If it ne'er dream of me! For I dream of him ever: His buff-coat and beaver, And long sword, O, never Are absent from me!
Confirmed with Poems Narrative and Lyrical, Third Edition, Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, MDCCCXLIV (1844), pages 179-180
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- by William Motherwell (1797 - 1835), "He is gone!", appears in Poems Narrative and Lyrical, in Songs [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Heinrich Julius Heintze (1811 - 1860) ; composed by Heinrich August Marschner.
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