by Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886 - 1967)

Language: English 
ev'ryone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filed with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white 
Orchards and dark-green fields; on -- on -- and out of sight.

Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror 
Drifted away. ... O but Everyone 
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the song will never be done.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Celius Dougherty (1902 - 1986), "Everyone sang", 1948 [ voice and piano ], G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard

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