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, 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: 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.
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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]
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Word count: 103