Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight gray; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the gray twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
Two Mystical Songs for Baritone and Orchestra
Song Cycle by Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (1916 - 2001)
?. In the Twilight  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The Celtic Twilight"
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Note: also sometimes titled "Into the Twilight"First published in National Observer (July 1893), revised same year
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 124