by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
Language: English
O in that hour when both of us are dead, When all of Life and Love at last is said, Will some red rose bloom o'er our graves to tell how our hearts bled? Or will a lily, in the starlit night, Lift its pale wonder and its waxen light, To tell the world how our poor hearts loved with a love most white?
Composition:
- Set to music by Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 - 1919), "L'envoi", published 1918 [ voice and piano ], from The Myrtles of Damascus, no. 5, Boosey and Co., London
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in 87. Certain Fragments from the Arabic, no. 3, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, first published 1908
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