The gold-armoured ghost from the Roman road Sighed over the wheat "Fear not the sound and the glamour of my gold armour (The sound of the wind and the wheat) Fear not its clamour Fear only the red-gold sun with the fleece of a fox Who will steal the fluttering bird you hide in your breast. Fear only the red-gold rain that will dim your brightness, O my tall tow'r of corn, you, my blonde girl" But the wind sighed "Rest"... The wind in his grey knight's armour The wind in his grey knight armour Sighed over the fields of wheat, "He is gone... forlorn."
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Text Authorship:
- by Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "The youth with the red-gold hair" [sung text checked 1 time]
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