by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Language: English 
Farewell to a name and a number
  Recalled again
To darkness and silence and slumber
  In blood and pain.
 
So ceases and turns to the thing
  He was born to be
A soldier cheap to the King
  And dear to me;
 
So smothers in blood the burning
  And flaming light
Of valour and truth returning
  To dust and night.

Composition:

    Set to music by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Farewell to a name", c1965 [ voice and piano ]

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This text was added to the website: 2008-12-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 60