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by Seumas O'Sullivan (1879 - 1958)

O herdsman, driving your slow twilight...
Language: English 
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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•   E. Moeran 

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Titled "The shadows" in some publications
1 Moeran: "heart too, the shadows"

Text Authorship:

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

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
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 67

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