by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1883 - 1929)
If You Forget
Language: English
Let me forget -- Let me forget, I am weary of remembrance, And my brow is ever wet, With tears of my remembrance, With the tears and bloody sweat,- Let me forget If you forget – if you forget, Then your children must remember, And their brow be ever wet, With the tears of their remembrance, With the tears and bloody sweat, If you forget.
Text Authorship:
- by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1883 - 1929) [author's text not yet checked 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 Ian Venables (b. 1955), "If You Forget", op. 46 no. 5 (2016) [ voice, viola and piano ], from Through These Pale Cold Days, no. 5, Novello and Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 64