Here they lie who once learned here All that is taught of hurt or fear; Dead, but by free will they died: They were true men, they had pride.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Graves (1895 - 1985), "Here They Lie", appears in Country Sentiment, first published 1920 [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 Eric McElroy , "Here They Lie", 2017 [ voice and piano ], from A Dead Man's Embers - Six Poems of Robert Graves, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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