by Ernest Hemmingway (1899 - 1961)
Along With Youth
Language: English
A porcupine skin, Stiff with bad tanning, It must have ended somewhere. Stuffed horned owl Pompous Yellow eyed; Chuck-wills-widow on a biassed twig Sooted with dust. Piles of old magazines, Drawers of boy's letters And the line of love They must have ended somewhere. Yesterday's Tribune is gone Along with youth And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach The year of the big storm When the hotel burned down At Seney. Michigan.
Confirmed with Ernest Hemingway, Along with Youth, Paris : Contact Publishing, 1923, p.57
Text Authorship:
- by Ernest Hemmingway (1899 - 1961), "Along with Youth", first published 1923 [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 Aleksandra Vrebalov (b. 1970), "Along With Youth", 2017 [ female voice and 2 violins ], Composers Edition
Publisher: ComposersEdition [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-11-17
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