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by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)

Grantchester
 (Sung text for setting by C. Ives)
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Language: English 
Would I were in Grantchester, in Grantchester!
Some, it may-be, can get in touch
With Nature there or Earth or such.
And clever modern men have seen
A Faun a-peeping through the green,
And felt the Classics were not dead,
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head
Or hear the Goat foot piping low....
But these are things I do not know
I only know that you may lie
Day long and watch the Cambridge sky,
And, flower lulled in sleepy grass,
Hear the cool lapse of hours pass,
Until the centuries blend and blur
In Grantchester, in Grantchester.
First published in Poetry Review, November 1912.

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Grantchester", 1920, published 1921, copyright © 1922 [ medium voice and piano ], note: contains a musical quotation from Debussy's "l'Après-midi d'un Faune"

Text Authorship:

  • by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915), "The Old Vicarage, Granchester"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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