Pour out your light, O stars, and do not hold Your loveliest shining from earth's outworn shell -- Pure and cold your radiance -- pure and cold My dead friend's face as well.
Requiem
Set by Robert Hugill , "Requiem" [ baritone and piano ], from Four Songs to Texts by Ivor Gurney, no. 2 [Sung Text]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Text Authorship:
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Requiem", written 1916, appears in Severn and Somme, first published 1917
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The first of three in a row.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Pour out your bounty, moon of radiant shining On all this shattered flesh, these quiet forms; For these were slain, so strangely still reclining In the noblest cause was ever waged with arms.
Text Authorship:
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Requiem", written 1916, appears in Severn and Somme, first published 1917
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The third of three in a row.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Author(s): Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937)