The cost
Language: English
Take back the honour and the fame, The victory we've won, Take all the credit from my name, If this can be undone -- Let him, my friend that used to be, Somehow be given back to me. Don't mock me with the pride of it, The glory of his death, I only know he sighed a bit -- I felt him catch his breath. O God, if miracles can be, May he be given back to me !
Text Authorship:
- by Eric Thirkell Cooper , "The cost", appears in Soliloquies of a Subaltern : Somewhere in France, first published 1915 [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 John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The cost", subtitle: "Song of a Great War", 1916, published 1917, copyright © 1917, first performed 1917, from Two Songs, no. 2. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 76