Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of heart and step was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country. But beauty passes; beauty vanishes; However rare, rare it be; And when I die, who will remember That lady of the West Country.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "An epitaph", 1919, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from A Second Volume of Ten Songs, no. 4, London: Oxford University Press
Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "An epitaph", appears in The Listeners and Other Poems, first published 1912
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
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