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by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Into my heart an air that kills
 (Sung text for setting by J. Raynor)
 Matches original text
Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
Into my heart an air that kills
  From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
  What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
  I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
  And cannot come again.

Composition:

    Set to music by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Into my heart an air that kills", op. 141 (1947) [ baritone and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 40, first published 1896

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dentro il mio cuore un vento che uccide", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46

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