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by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)

The House on the Hill
 (Sung text for setting by S. Grill)
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Language: English 
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They are all gone away,
    The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.

Through broken walls and gray
    The winds blow bleak and shrill:
They are all gone away.

Nor is there one to-day
    To speak them good or ill:
There is nothing more to say.

Why is it then we stray
    Around that sunken sill?
They are all gone away,

And our poor fancy-play
    For them is wasted skill:
There is nothing more to say.

There is ruin and decay
    In the House on the Hill:
They are all gone away,

There is nothing more to say.

Composition:

    Set to music by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "The House on the Hill", subtitle: "a villanelle by Edward Arlington Robinson", copyright © 2018 [ satb chorus ], confirmed with an online score

Text Authorship:

  • by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935), "The house on the hill", appears in The Children of the Night, first published 1897

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-17
Line count: 19
Word count: 102

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