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by Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918)

Through these pale cold days
 (Sung text for setting by I. Venables)
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Language: English 
Through these pale cold days
What dark faces burn
Out of three thousand years,
And their wild eyes yearn,
While underneath their brows
Like waifs their spirits grope
For the pools of Hebron again-
For Lebanon’s summer slope.
They leave these blonde still days
In dust behind their tread
They see with living eyes
How long they have been dead.

Composition:

    Set to music by Ian Venables (b. 1955), "Through these pale cold days", op. 46 no. 3 (2016) [ voice, viola and piano ], from Through These Pale Cold Days, no. 3, Novello and Co.

Text Authorship:

  • by Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918)

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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-06
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