by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee Matches original text
Language: English
I, the poet William Yeats, With old mill boards and sea-green slates, And smithy work from the Gort forge, Restored this tower for my wife George; And may these characters remain When all is ruin once again.
Composition:
- Set to music by Steven R. Gerber (b. 1948), "To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee", 1986 [ high voice and piano ], from Four Elegiac Songs, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee"
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