by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
O thou that from thy mansion
Language: English
O thou that from thy mansion Through time and place to roam, Dost send abroad thy children, And then dost call them home, That men and tribes and nations And all thy hand hath made May shelter them from sunshine In thine eternal shade: We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), "For my funeral", appears in More Poems, no. 47, first published 1936 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "In thine eternal shade", 196-? [text not verified]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "For my funeral - O thou that from thy mansion" [baritone and piano] [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 66