by John Collings Squire, Sir (1884 - 1958)
You are my sky; beneath your circling...
Language: English
You are my sky; beneath your circling kindness My meadows all take in the light and grow; Laugh with the joy you've given, The joy you've given, And open in a thousand buds, and blow. But when you are sombre, sad, averse, forgetful, Heavily veiled by clouds that brood with rain, Dumbly I lie all shadowed, I lie all shadowed, And dumbly wait for you to shine again.
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Authorship:
- by John Collings Squire, Sir (1884 - 1958), "Song", appears in Poems, second series, first published 1922 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "You are my sky", 1920, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A First Volume of Ten Songs, no. 7, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 68