by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
The Song of the Dead See original
Language: English
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still to the Pole, asleep by their hide-stripped sledges. Song of the Dead in the South -- ... In the dust of the sere river-courses. Song of the Dead in the East -- in the heat-rotted jungle-hollows, ... Song of the Dead in the West in the Barrens, the snow that betrayed them, ... the grave-rnound they made them; Hear now the Song of the Dead! ...
First published in English Illustrated Magazine, May 1893
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Composition:
- Set to music by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "The Song of the Dead", 1898?, stanzas 1-3
Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), "The Song of the Dead", appears in Barrack-Room Ballads, in A Song of the English
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-02-10
Line count: 69
Word count: 573