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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Crazy Jane on God
 (Sung text for setting by S. Grill)
 See original
Language: English 
That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in God.

Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
Where the great battle was
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in God.

Before their eyes a house
That from childhood stood
Uninhabited, ruinous,
Suddenly lit up
From door to top:
All things remain in God.

I had wild Jack as a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.

Composition:

    Set to music by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Crazy Jane on God", 1999, copyright © 2000 [ soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello and piano ], from Crazy Jane Sings, no. 5, confirmed with an online score

Text Authorship:

  • by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Crazy Jane on God", appears in Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, first published 1932

See other settings of this text.


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-03
Line count: 24
Word count: 103

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