by Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915)
Grantchester Matches base text
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.
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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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Line count: 15
Word count: 98