by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Language: English 
Underneath the growing grass,
  Underneath the living flowers,
  Deeper than the sound of showers:
  There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.

Youth and health will be but vain,
  Beauty reckoned of no worth:
  There a very little girth
  Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
First published in Macmillan's Magazine, March 1863

Composition:

    Set to music by Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), "The Bourne", 2008, first performed 2008 [ soprano and harp ]

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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-11
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