by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
O Sweet Everlasting Voices Matches base text
Language: English
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more; Have you not heard that our hearts are old, That you call in birds, in wind on the hill, In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore? O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.
First published in New Review (January 1896), revised 1899
Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe
Composition:
- Set to music by John Edmunds (1913 - 1986), "O Sweet Everlasting Voices" [ voice and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Everlasting voices"
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Researcher for this page: David K. Smythe
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 62