by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)

Language: English 
If Sleep and Death be truly one,
   And every spirit's folded bloom
   Thro' all its intervital gloom
In some long trance should slumber on;

Unconscious of the sliding hour,
   Bare of the body, might it last,
   And silent traces of the past
Be all the colour of the flower:

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Composition:

    Set to music by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), no title, 1899, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], from In Memoriam, no. 4

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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 101