by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
What morn shall find thee, O departed...
Language: English
What morn shall find thee, O departed one, Under the fragrant dew? Thou hast appeared, O gentle-hearted one, Back to my famished view. Clad in white vestments, thou who hast been banished Out of this lonely place, I saw thee once at dusk … Now thou hast vanished, And left, alas! no trace!
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Confirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer And Other Poems, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, 1908, page 114.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in Songs out of the Orient, in 84. A Baghdad Lover (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade’s Songs in “The Thousand and One Nights”), no. 6 [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "What Morn Shall I Find Thee?", op. 25 no. 6, published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from A Baghdad lover, no. 6, New York : H.W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 53