O herdsman, driving your slow twilight...

O herdsman, driving your slow twilight flock 
  By darkening meadow and hedge and grassy rath, 
The trees stand shuddering as you pass by, 
  The suddenly falling silence is your path. 

Over my [heart the shadows too]1 are creeping, 
  But on my heart for ever they will lie. 
O happy meadow and trees and raths and hedges, 
  The twilight and all its flock will pass you by.

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Authorship

• by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879 - 1958), "The herdsman", appears in The Twilight People, first published 1905 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by H. Grant Fletcher (b. 1913), "The shadows", published 1942. [SATB chorus a cappella] [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Frederick M. May (1911 - 1985), "The herdsman" [voice and piano] [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "The herdsman", R. 85 no. 6 (1944), published 1946 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from Six Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, no. 6. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

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