by (Frederic) Herbert Trench (1865 - 1923)
Dark, dark, the seas and lands
Language: English
Dark, dark, the seas and lands Between us lie! And to taunt these banished hands Hang mountains high; Yet to-night your voice from home Most strange, most clear, Over the gulfs hath come Gloriously near! Long since, in the desert's heat I swooned, I fell, To find your love at my feet Like the desert's well; Now, loftier and more profound Than the dawn at sea, Your spirit, like heavenly sound, Delivers me!
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Confirmed with Herbert Trench, Apollo and the Seaman, The Queen of Gothland, Stanzas to Tolstoy, and Other Lyrics, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1908, page 90.
Text Authorship:
- by (Frederic) Herbert Trench (1865 - 1923), "Dark, dark the seas and lands", appears in Apollo and the Seaman, The Queen of Gothland, Stanzas to Tolstoy, and Other Lyrics, first published 1908 [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 Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Dark, dark the seas", op. 29 no. 6 (1909), published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Six Modern Songs, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 73