by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953)
Ha'nacker Mill
Language: English
Sally is gone that was so kindly Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill. And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly [ And ever since then the clapper is still,]1 And the sweeps have fallen from Ha'nacker Mill. Ha'nacker Hill is in Desolation: Ruin a-top and a field unploughed. And Spirits that call on a fallen nation [ Spirits that loved her calling aloud:]1 Spirits abroad in a windy cloud. Spirits that call and no one answers; Ha'nacker's down and England's done. Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers And never a ploughman under the Sun. Never a ploughman. Never a one.
View original text (without footnotes)
1 omitted by Warlock.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
1 omitted by Warlock.
Text Authorship:
- by (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc (1870 - 1953), appears in Sonnets and Verse (1923), first published 1923 [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 Hubert Sydney Brown (1898 - 1949), "Ha'nacker Mill", published 1932 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fontrier (b. 1918), "Ha'nacker Mill", published 1965 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Choruses to Texts by Hilaire Belloc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Ha'nacker Mill", 1919-1922, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A First Volume of Ten Songs, no. 8, London: Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Ha'nacker Mill" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (b. 1908), "Ha'nacker Mill", published 1962 [ baritone, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from Valley of Arun [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert McCauley , "Ha'nacker Mill", 2019, from Poems of Hilaire Belloc, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Harold Noble (1903 - 1998), "Ha'nacker Mill", published 1947 [ TTBB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Reginald Pasfield (1909 - 1994), "Ha'nacker Mill", published 1964 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mary Plumstead (1905 - 1980), "Ha'nacker Mill" [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Ha'nacker Mill", op. 53 (1944) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Ha'nacker Mill", 1927, published 1927 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Belloc Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 103