by Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones (1862 - 1937)
Survival
Language: English
When you and I, like all things kind or cruel, The garnered days and light evasive hours, Are gone again to be a part of flowers And tears and tides, in life's divine renewal, If some grey eve to certain eyes should wear A deeper radiance than mere light can give, Some silent page abruptly flush and live, May it not be that you and I are there?
Text Authorship:
- by Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones (1862 - 1937), "Survival" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "Survival", op. 30 no. 1, published 2013 [high voice and piano], from Songs of Virtue and Loss, no. 1. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 69