Here sleep I, Susannah Fry, No one near me, No one nigh: Alone, alone Under my stone, Dreaming on, Still dreaming on: Grass for my valance And coverlid, Dreaming on As I always did. "Weak in the head" Maybe. Who knows? Susannah Fry Under the rose.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), no title, appears in Ding Dong Bell, first published 1924 [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 Theodore Ward Chanler (1902 - 1961), "Susannah Fry", published 1939 [ voice and piano ], from Eight Epitaphs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson (1870 - 1946), as Henry Handel Richardson, "Susannah Fry" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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