by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
The Difference
Language: English
People are like leaves, fluttering and gay on the bush of the globe, or they are like leaves, rustling thick, in crowds on the floor of the earth. And the thick, fallen crowds crackle and crumble under the milling of the winds, the winds of change that will not be still, the breath of life. But the living leaves in the breath of the wind are more lively, they glisten and shake.
Text Authorship:
- by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885 - 1930), "The Difference" [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 Ting Wei Americ Goh , "The Difference", 2017 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Songs on Men, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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