O joy! that in our embers
          Is something that doth live;
        That Nature yet remembers
          What was so fugitive!

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        The rainbow comes and goes, 
        And lovely is the rose;

Note: these lines are taken from stanzas 9 and 2 of the much longer poem linked below.

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• a text in English by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), "Words from Wordsworth", 1966 [mixed chorus a cappella] [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-01-13
Line count: 7
Word count: 32